Influences of high and low variability on infant word recognition

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 833-870

  Singh, Leher ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infancy; Variability in speech; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AFFECT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WORD RECOGNITION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 37249087868     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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