Investigating motionese: The effect of infant-directed action on infants’ attention and object exploration

The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition

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Four-month-old infants prefer to listen to motherese

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Rhythmical stereotypies in normal human infants

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Evidence for ‘motionese’: modifications in mothers’ infant‐directed action

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Education, Human Development, Psychology +17

Infants' manipulative exploration of objects: Effects of age and object characteristics.

Holly A. Ruff · Developmental Psychology · 1984 · 327 citations

Education, Human Development, Psychology +14