Acoustical cues and grammatical units in speech to two preverbal infants

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 869-902

  Soderstrom, Melanie ^a,c   Blossom, Megan ^b   Foygel, Rina ^a   Morgan, James L ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SIBLING RELATION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; SIBLING RELATIONS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 53849105126     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000908008763     Document Type: Article

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