Age-specific preferences for infant-directed affective intent

Infancy

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 77-100

  Kitamura, Christine ^a   Lam, Christa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHONETICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 59249089162     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15250000802569777     Document Type: Article

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