Three-Month-Olds Prefer Speech to Other Naturally Occurring Signals
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Three-Month-Olds Prefer Speech to Other Naturally Occurring Signals
Human infants show a preference for listening to speech, but little is known about how infants listen to other naturally occurring sounds. Here, we test infants’ listening bias for speech against a range of naturally occurring sounds that share properties of speech to varying extents and we aim to better characterize the speech properties that attract infant attention. We compared 3-month-olds’...
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عنوان ژورنال: Language Learning and Development
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1547-5441,1547-3341
DOI: 10.1080/15475440903507830