Look who's talking: Speech style and social context in language input to infants are linked to concurrent and future speech development

Developmental Science

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 880-891

  Ramírez Esparza, Nairán ^a   García Sierra, Adrián ^b   Kuhl, Patricia K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84939266027     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/desc.12172     Document Type: Article

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