Prosodic and lexical aspects of maternal linguistic input to late-talking toddlers

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 293-311

  D'Odorico, Laura ^a   Jacob, Valentina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Baby talk; Language (acquisition); Prosody

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

CHILD LANGUAGE; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LEARNING; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33646930113     PISSN: 13682822     EISSN: 14606984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13682820500342976     Document Type: Article

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