Language-specific stress perception by 9-month-old French and Spanish infants

Developmental Science

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 914-919

  Skoruppa, Katrin ^a,b   Pons, Ferran ^d   Christophe, Anne ^a,b   Bosch, Laura ^d   Dupoux, Emmanuel ^a,b   Sebastián Gallés, Núria ^d   Limissuri, Rita Alves ^a,b   Peperkamp, Sharon ^a,b,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Université Paris Descartes   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FRANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPAIN; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

FRANCE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; SPAIN; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 70350116093     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00835.x     Document Type: Article

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