Newborn infants' sensitivity to perceptual cues to lexical and grammatical words

Cognition

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1999, Pages

  Shi, Rushen ^a   Werker, Janet F ^a   Morgan, James L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infancy; Language acquisition; Lexical and grammatical words; Speech perception; Syntactic categories

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032866082     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00047-5     Document Type: Article

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