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Interacting processes and developmental biases allow learners to crack the “what” code and the “who” code in spoken language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2018

Linda Polka  and
Thierry Nazzi
Linda Polka
Affiliation:
School of Communication Sciences & Disorders and Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music McGill University
Thierry Nazzi
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Psychologie de la Perception (UMR8242) and Université Paris Descartes
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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , July 2018 , pp. 757 - 761
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