Infant ability to tell voices apart rests on language experience

Developmental Science

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1002-1011

  Johnson, Elizabeth K ^a   Westrek, Ellen ^b   Nazzi, Thierry ^c   Cutler, Anne ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 80051920884     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01052.x     Document Type: Article

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