Functional flexibility of infant vocalization and the emergence of language

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

Volumn 110, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 6318-6323

  Oller, D Kimbrough ^a,b   Buder, Eugene H ^a   Ramsdell, Heather L ^c   Warlaumont, Anne S ^d   Chorna, Lesya ^e   Bakeman, Roger ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

^f GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYING; EMOTION; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOCALIZATION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CRYING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LAUGHTER; ODDS RATIO; SPEECH; TENNESSEE;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84876209693     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1300337110     Document Type: Article

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