Categorization of infant-directed speech: Development from 4 to 6 months

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 97-109

  Spence, Melanie J ^a   Moore, David S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b PITZER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Communication; Development; Familiarization; Human infants; Infant directed speech; Language; Perception; Visual fixation

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037215999     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.10093     Document Type: Article

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