Infant-directed prosody helps infants map sounds to meanings

Infancy

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 797-824

  Graf Estes, Katharine ^a   Hurley, Karinna ^a  

^a University of California ^*  (United States)

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ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DIRECTED SPEECH; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PITCH; REINFORCEMENT; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84882262496     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/infa.12006     Document Type: Article

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