Prosody guides the rapid mapping of auditory word forms onto visual objects in 6-mo-old infants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 6038-6043

  Shukla, Mohinish ^a   White, Katherine S ^b   Aslin, Richard N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Intonational phrase; Language acquisition; Lexical development; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY WORD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSODY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 79955014693     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017617108     Document Type: Article

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