Absolute pitch and tempo in mothers' songs to infants

Psychological Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 72-75

  Bergeson, Tonya R ^a   Trehub, Sandra E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PERIODICITY; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036365637     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00413     Document Type: Article

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