Acoustic determinants eliciting Japanese infants' vocal response to maternal speech

Psychological Reports

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 83-90

  Niwano, Katsuko ^a   Sugai, Kuniaki ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHONETICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036484157     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2002.90.1.83     Document Type: Article

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