Acoustic Analysis of Lexical Tone in Mandarin Infant-Directed Speech

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 912-917

  Liu, Huei Mei ^a   Tsao, Feng Ming ^b   Kuhl, Patricia K ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic analysis; infant directed speech; lexical tone; Mandarin Chinese

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34548158467     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.4.912     Document Type: Article

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