A variable that may affect individual differences in the child-directed speech of Japanese women

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 203-208

  Ikeda, Yumi ^a   Masataka, Nobuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Motherese; Only child; Prosody

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033436513     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5884.00120     Document Type: Article

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