Disentangling behavior in early child development: Interpretability of early child language and its effect on utterance length measures

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 99-117

  van Dijk, Marijn ^a   van Geert, Paul ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Early child language; Filler syllables; Interpretability; Mean Length of Utterance; Methodology; Transcription procedure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 18344366372     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2004.12.003     Document Type: Article

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