Twenty-two-month-olds discriminate fluent from disfluent adult-directed speech: PAPER

Developmental Science

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 641-653

  Soderstrom, Melanie ^a   Morgan, James L ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34547667351     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2006.00605.x     Document Type: Article

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