Developmental changes in the weighting of prosodic cues

Developmental Science

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 596-606

  Seidl, Amanda ^a,b   Cristià, Alejandrina ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; SOUND; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 45349087987     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00704.x     Document Type: Article

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