Polysyllabic units in the vocalizations of children from 0;6 to 1;11: Intonation-groups, tones and rhythms

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 765-797

  Snow, David ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TIME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 35448929114     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S030500090700815X     Document Type: Article

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