Infant perception of atypical speech signals

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 815-824

  Vouloumanos, Athena ^a   Gelfand, Hanna M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical speech signals; Audio visual speech; Cognitive development; Infant speech perception; Language acquisition; Parrot speech

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; PHONETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ATTENTION; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84877126508     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029055     Document Type: Article

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