At 11 months, prosody still outranks statistics

Developmental Science

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 131-141

  Johnson, Elizabeth K ^a   Seidl, Amanda H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 57849109907     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00740.x     Document Type: Article

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