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Speech perception, word learning, and language acquisition in infancy: The voyage continues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2018

Janet F. WERKER
Janet F. WERKER*
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University of British Columbia
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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , July 2018 , pp. 769 - 777
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