Phonetic variability and prosodic structure in mothers

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 477-498

  Redford, Melissa A ^a,b   Davis, Barbara L ^a   Miikkulainen, Risto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic measures; Computational model; Infant directed speech; Phonetic variability; Speech segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTHM; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VOCALIZATION; VOWEL;

EID: 8644226195     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2004.05.001     Document Type: Article

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