Toddlers use speech disfluencies to predict speakers' referential intentions

Developmental Science

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 925-934

  Kidd, Celeste ^a   White, Katherine S ^b   Aslin, Richard N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENTION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79959311959     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01049.x     Document Type: Article

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