Pitch modification when interacting with-elders: Japanese women with and without experience with infants

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 939-951

  Masataka, Nobuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036852602     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000902005378     Document Type: Article

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