Infants' listening preferences: Baby talk or happy talk?

Infancy

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 365-394

  Singh, Leher ^a   Morgan, James L ^a   Best, Catherine T ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNICATION SKILL; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PITCH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0039031781     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327078IN0303_5     Document Type: Article

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