Language universals at birth

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

Volumn 111, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 5837-5841

  Gómez, David Maximiliano ^a,b   Berent, Iris ^c   Benavides Varela, Silvia ^a,d,e   Bion, Ricardo A H ^f   Cattarossi, Luigi ^g   Nespor, Marina ^a   Mehler, Jacques ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IRCCS SAN CAMILLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Human newborns; NIRS; Phonology; Sonority; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; BIRTH; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

HUMAN NEWBORNS; NIRS; PHONOLOGY; SONORITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

BRAIN; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE; MALE; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 84899121893     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318261111     Document Type: Article

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