Precursors to natural grammar learning: Preliminary evidence from 4-month-old infants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Friederici, Angela D ^a   Mueller, Jutta L ^a   Oberecker, Regine ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; GERMANY; GRAMMAR; GRAMMAR LEARNING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; VISUAL STIMULATION; LANGUAGE;

HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING;

EID: 79952907553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017920     Document Type: Article

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