Tuned to the signal: The privileged status of speech for young infants

Developmental Science

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 270-276

  Vouloumanos, Athena ^a,b   Werker, Janet F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 2942622475     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00345.x     Document Type: Article

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