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Direct linkSingh, Leher; Morgan, James L.; White, Katherine S. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
Infants prefer to listen to happy speech. To assess influences of speech affect on early lexical processing, 7.5- and 10.5-month-old infants were familiarized with one word spoken with happy affect and another with neutral affect and then tested on recognition of these words in fluent passages. Infants heard all passages either with happy affect…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Language Processing, Infants, Familiarity
