Auditory perception at the root of language learning

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

Volumn 109, Issue 39, 2012, Pages 15953-15958

  Mueller, Jutta L ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a   Man̈nel, Claudia ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

AXB rules; Language acquisition; Mismatch negativity; Pitch perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84866862946     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204319109     Document Type: Article

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