Influences of infant-directed speech on early word recognition

Infancy

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 654-666

  Singh, Leher ^a   Nestor, Sarah ^b   Parikh, Chandni ^a   Yull, Ashley ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH; STIMULUS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 77949407744     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15250000903263973     Document Type: Article

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