The developing role of prosody in novel word interpretation

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 229-241

  Herold, Debora S ^a   Nygaard, Lynne C ^b   Chicos, Kelly A ^b   Namy, Laura L ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Prosody; Speech cues; Spoken language; Tone of voice; Word learning; Word meaning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ASSOCIATION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 78649930455     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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