Maternal responsiveness and the development of directed vocalizing in social interactions

Infancy

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 385-408

  Gros Louis, Julie ^a   West, Meredith J ^b   King, Andrew P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONSONANT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAMILY INTERACTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MACARTHUR COMMUNICATIVE DEVELOPMENT INVENTORY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PHONETICS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOUND; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; VOWEL;

EID: 84902266191     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/infa.12054     Document Type: Article

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