Faster Orientation Latencies Toward Native Language in Two-Month-Old Infants

Language and Speech

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-43

  Dehaene Lambertz, G ^a   Houston, D ^b  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Infants; Language; Prosody; Reaction times; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011918825     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002383099804100102     Document Type: Article

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