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Direct linkNazzi, Thierry; Floccia, Caroline; Moquet, Berangere; Butler, Joseph – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
Using a name-based categorization task, Nazzi found in 2005 that French-learning 20-month-olds can make use of one-feature consonantal contrasts between new labels but fail to do so with one-feature vocalic contrasts. This asymmetry was interpreted as developmental evidence for the proposal that consonants play a more important role than vowels at…
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