Nonhuman primate vocalizations support categorization in very young human infants

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

Volumn 110, Issue 38, 2013, Pages 15231-15235

  Ferry, Alissa L ^a,b   Hespos, Susan J ^b   Waxman, Sandra R ^b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual development; Developmental tuning; Infancy; Language acquisition; Language and thought

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION;

CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL TUNING; INFANCY; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEMUR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84884343847     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1221166110     Document Type: Article

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