Effects of caregiver prosody on child language acquisition

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Vosoughi, Soroush ^a   Roy, Brandon C ^a   Frank, Michael C ^b   Roy, Deb ^a  

^a Media Lab   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child language acquisition; Corpus data; Prosody; Word learning

Indexed keywords

CHILD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; CORPUS DATA; HIGH-FIDELITY; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LEXICAL ACQUISITION; PROSODY; WORD LEARNING; YOUNG CHILDREN;

EID: 84920933992     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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