Relation of melody complexity in infants' cries to language outcome in the second year of life: A longitudinal study

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 21, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 961-973

  Wermke, Kathleen ^a   Leising, Daniel ^a   Stellzig Eisenhauer, Angelika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Infant cries; Language development; Melody; SLI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYING; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MUSIC; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 35848931877     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200701659243     Document Type: Article

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