Perceptual Narrowing of Linguistic Sign Occurs in the 1st Year of Life

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 543-553

  Palmer, Stephanie Baker ^a   Fais, Laurel ^a   Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick ^b   Werker, Janet F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; DEAFNESS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84858203326     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01715.x     Document Type: Article

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