European Portuguese-Learning Infants Look Longer at Iambic Stress: New Data on Language Specificity in Early Stress Perception

The ability to perceive lexical stress patterns has been shown to develop in language-specific ways. However, previous studies have examined this ability in languages that are either clearly stress-based (favoring the development of a preference for trochaic stress, like English and German) or sylla...

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Main Authors: Sónia Frota, Joseph Butler, Ertugrul Uysal, Cátia Severino, Marina Vigário
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01890/full