Prosody cues word order in 7-month-old bilingual infants

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gervain, Judit ^a   Werker, Janet F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NEONATE;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; INFORMATION; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; SPEECH; TONGUE; WORD LIST RECALL;

CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84874587578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2430     Document Type: Article

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