How each prosodic boundary cue matters: Evidence from German infants

How each prosodic boundary cue matters: Evidence from German infants

Previous studies have revealed that infants aged six to ten months are able to use the acoustic correlates of major prosodic boundaries, that is, pitch change, preboundary lengthening, and pause, for the segmentation of the continuous speech signal. Moreover, investigations with American-English- an...

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Main Authors: Caroline eWellmann, Julia eHolzgrefe, Hubert eTruckenbrodt, Isabell eWartenburger, Barbara eHöhle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Speech Perception
infants
language acquisition
Prosody
prosodic bootstrapping
prosodic boundary cues
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00580/full

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