Infant Vocal Development during the First 6 Months: Speech Quality and Melodic Complexity

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-16

  Hsu, Hui Chin ^a   Fogel, Alan ^b   Cooper, Rebecca B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic systems theory; Infant vocalization; Non linear development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034400502     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-7219(200003)9:1<1::AID-ICD210>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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