Visual speech contributes to phonetic learning in 6-month-old infants

Cognition

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 850-855

  Teinonen, Tuomas ^a,b   Aslin, Richard N ^c   Alku, Paavo ^d   Csibra, Gergely ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Distributional information; Phonetic learning; Visual speech

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LIPREADING; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 49649129889     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.05.009     Document Type: Article

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