Infants exposed to fluent natural speech succeed at cross-gender word recognition

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 554-560

  van Heugten, Marieke ^a   Johnson, Elizabeth K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exemplar representations; Indexical information; Infant speech perception; Lack of invariance; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTHER; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHERS; PHONETICS; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 84859391716     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0347)     Document Type: Article

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