COMMENTARY: Constructing adequate non-speech analogues: what is special about speech anyway?

Developmental Science

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 165-168

  Rosen, Stuart ^a   Iverson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOUND; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; SOUND; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846703989     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00550.x     Document Type: Review

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