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play with toy guns or weapons, or military action figures . See Fantasy play, Play, Play fighting (or rough-and-tumble play)

A state of readiness to respond indicated by resynchronisation of the EEG.  See Behavioral stste, Behavioral state concept, Electroencephalogram (EEG), NREM sleep

Elemental image unit that constitutes a three-dimensional magnetic resonance image . See Diffusion tensor imaging, Structural magnetic imaging (sMRI)

An increased sensitivity to future adverse influences, often as a result of previous adverse experiences or health problems.  Individuals with fewer social and psychological resources are hypothesized to be more likely to experience social stress when exposed to adverse circumstances, and so are more vulnerable than those with greater resources.  See Biological risk factor, Coping, …

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Sounds like ‚aaee‚aa or ‚aaoo√Æ‚aa produced without full closer of the oral passage See Articulatory quadrilateral, Consonants, Diagraph, Vowel-to-consonant ratio

The proportion of vowel sounds to consonant sounds, and used as an index of speech development . See Consonants, Speech development, Vowels

The vibration of the vocal cords during the production of a vowel produces resonant harmonic frequencies as in a pipe organ, where ‚aaharmonic‚aa means an integral multiple of the fundamental frequency . See Fundamental frequency (F0), Pitch

See Glottal, Larynx

See Larynx, Pharynx

A vitamin in the maternal diet required for the development of the fatal retina. It is a component of cone pigments and termed 11-cis retinal . See Cones and rods, Retina, Retinoic acid (RA)