Acoustic Cues to Grammatical Structure in Infant-Directed Speech: Cross-Linguistic Evidence

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3192-3218

  Fisher, Cynthia ^a   Tokura, Hisayo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; SPEECH; UNITED STATES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; UNITED STATES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0030334662     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01909.x     Document Type: Article

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