The identification of names in maternal speech to infants Export

@article{citeulike:4883333, abstract = {Mothers' speech to 14-month-old infants was recorded during a free-play session. The findings suggest that this speech contained a number of characteristics which could facilitate the identification of names from the other words in an utterance; names were frequently the loudest word of an utterance and were highly likely to be positioned at the end of utterances. Thus, infants appear to receive a verbal input which may help them to identify semantically important words.}, author = {Messer, David J.}, citeulike-article-id = {4883333}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01067362}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/w43155n07671340r}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1007/BF01067362}, journal = {Journal of Psycholinguistic Research}, keywords = {amplitude, prosody}, month = {January}, number = {1}, pages = {69--77}, posted-at = {2009-06-17 20:02:02}, priority = {0}, title = {The identification of names in maternal speech to infants}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01067362}, volume = {10}, year = {1981} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4883333 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4883333 N2 - Mothers' speech to 14-month-old infants was recorded during a free-play session. The findings suggest that this speech contained a number of characteristics which could facilitate the identification of names from the other words in an utterance; names were frequently the loudest word of an utterance and were highly likely to be positioned at the end of utterances. Thus, infants appear to receive a verbal input which may help them to identify semantically important words. IS - 1 JF - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research EP - 77 TI - The identification of names in maternal speech to infants VL - 10 SP - 69 KW - amplitude KW - prosody AU - Messer, David PY - 1981/01/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01067362 ER -