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Research Article

Voice onset time of voiceless bilabial and velar stops in 3-year-old bilingual children and their age-matched monolingual peers

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Pages 148-163 | Received 22 Mar 2011, Accepted 06 Jun 2011, Published online: 25 Jul 2011

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