Audiovisual Alignment in Child-Directed Speech Facilitates Word Learning

International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2008, AVSP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 101-106

  Jesse, Alexandra ^a   Johnson, Elizabeth K ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Audiovisual alignment; Speech perception; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT;

'CURRENT; AUDIOVISUAL ALIGNMENT; PROSODIC STRUCTURE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WORD LEARNING;

SPEECH;

EID: 84878632388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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