Three patterns of intrasyllabic co-occurrence, reflecting putatively fundamental infant production constraints, have been found in phonetic analyses of babbling and first words. They are labial-central (LC), coronal-front (CF), and dorsal-back vowel (DB) intrasyllabic patterns. Evidence of these patterns was sought in three databases; targets for words attempted by eight English learning infant...

Social learning in infancy is known to be facilitated by multimodal (e.g., visual, tactile, and verbal) cues provided by caregivers. In parallel with infants' development, recent research has revealed that maternal neural activity is altered through interaction with infants, for instance, to be sensitive to infant-directed speech (IDS). The present study investigated the effect of mother- infan...

Adults recognise words faster given prior exposure to phonologically or semantically related words compared to unrelated words, suggesting that words are organised in the adult lexicon based on their phonological and semantic properties and that word recognition implicates not just the heard word, but also related words. The organisation of words in the infant lexicon, however, remains unexplor...

background infant mortality rate is widely used to assessing the health status of population in both developing and developed countries. the aim of this study was to identify the main factors affect infant mortality rate in eco countries for the years 2005 to 2012. methods a panel data model from eco countries from 2005 to 2012 used to identify the some of key explanatory variables (gdp per cap...

aim : the aim of this study was to evaluate the likelihood ratio and frequency of dq2 and dq8 in iranian patients with celiac disease (cd). background : the hla dq2 and hla dq8 are the important mediators in the development of celiac disease. a few studies evaluated the frequency of hla dq2 and hla dq8 haplotypes among the iranian population with low sample size. patients and methods : in this ...