Pitch and communicative intent in mother's speech: Adjustments for age and sex in the first year

Infancy

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-110

  Kitamura, Christine ^a   Burnham, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDIO RECORDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; RATING SCALE;

EID: 27944491862     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327078IN0401_5     Document Type: Article

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