How salient are onomatopoeia in the early input? A prosodic analysis of infant-directed speech

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1117-1139

  Laing, Catherine E ^a,b   Vihman, Marilyn ^a   Keren Portnoy, Tamar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUCK; HUMAN; INFANT; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; PITCH; QUACKERY; SPEECH; FEMALE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PHONETICS; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PHONETICS; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84988693239     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000916000428     Document Type: Article

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