Infant directed speech and the development of speech perception: Enhancing development or an unintended consequence?

Cognition

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 362-378

  McMurray, Bob ^a   Kovack Lesh, Kristine A ^b   Goodwin, Dresden ^b   McEchron, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b RIPON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant directed speech; Phonetic analysis; Speech categorization; Statistical learning; Voices onset time; Vowels

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DIRECTED SPEECH; LEARNING; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SPEECH; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RATE; VOICE ONSET TIME; VOWEL;

INFANT DIRECTED SPEECH; PHONETIC ANALYSIS; SPEECH CATEGORIZATION; STATISTICAL LEARNING; VOICES ONSET TIME; VOWELS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84883042564     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.07.015     Document Type: Article

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