Nine-month-old infants are sensitive to the temporal alignment of prosodic and gesture prominences

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 38, Issue , 2015, Pages 126-129

  Esteve Gibert, Núria ^a   Prieto, Pilar ^a,b   Pons, Ferran ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Institute for Brain Cognition and Behavior (IR3C)   (Spain)

Author keywords

Early temporal alignment; Multimodal communication; Multimodal prominence; Pointing; Pointing speech coordination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LINGUISTICS; MACARTHUR COMMUNICATIVE DEVELOPMENT INVENTORY; NORMAL HUMAN; POINTING SPEECH COMBINATION; PROSODIC AND GESTURE PROMINENCE TEMPORAL ALIGNMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GESTURE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84923045940     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: 19348800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.12.016     Document Type: Article

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