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11 - Acoustic Characteristics of Infant-directed Speech as a Function of Prosodic Typology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2016

Jeffrey Heinz
Affiliation:
University of Delaware
Rob Goedemans
Affiliation:
Universiteit Leiden
Harry van der Hulst
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
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