Leftward cradling bias, prosodic speech, and deafness: The deaf are not dumb

Journal of Genetic Psychology

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 126-128

  Woll, Bencie ^a   Sieratzki, Jechil S ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD CARE; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

DEAFNESS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT CARE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036516555     PISSN: 00221325     EISSN: 19400896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221320209597973     Document Type: Article

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