Infant Directed Speech Enhances Statistical Learning in Newborn Infants: An ERP Study.

Statistical learning and the social contexts of language addressed to infants are hypothesized to play important roles in early language development. Previous behavioral work has found that the exaggerated prosodic contours of infant-directed speech (IDS) facilitate statistical learning in 8-month-o...

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Main Authors: Alexis N Bosseler, Tuomas Teinonen, Mari Tervaniemi, Minna Huotilainen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5019490?pdf=render