Speech perception and language acquisition in the first year of life

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue , 2010, Pages 191-218

  Gervain, Judit ^a   Mehler, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolution of language; Infancy; Learning mechanisms; Phonological bootstrapping

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

BRAIN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77449089842     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: 15452085     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.093008.100408     Document Type: Article

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