Development of prosodic patterns in Mandarin-learning infants

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 73-84

  Chen, Li Mei ^a   Kent, Raymond D ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMITATION; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

CHILD LANGUAGE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 61549108923     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000908008878     Document Type: Article

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