The influence of infant-directed speech on 12-month-olds' intersensory perception of fluent speech

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 644-651

  Kubicek, Claudia ^a   Gervain, Judit ^b,c   Hillairet de Boisferon, Anne ^d   Pascalis, Olivier ^e   Lœvenbruck, Hélène ^e   Schwarzer, Gudrun ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Audio visual speech perception; Infant directed speech; Infants; Intersensory; Perceptual narrowing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADULT; HEARING; LANGUAGE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84911948123     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: 19348800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.08.010     Document Type: Article

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