Prosodic processing at the sentence level in infants

NeuroReport

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 675-678

  Pannekamp, Ann ^a,b   Weber, Christiane ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Closure positive shift; Event related potentials; Infants; Language acquisition; Prosody

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSODY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646372733     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200604240-00024     Document Type: Article

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