It's a question? Infants attend differently to yes/no questions and declaratives

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-110

  Soderstrom, Melanie ^a   Ko, Eon Suk ^b   Nevzorova, Uliana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Grammar acquisition; Habituation; Language acquisition; Question intonation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

AGING; ATTENTION; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 79451471391     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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