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Kehoe, Margaret; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995
Fundamental frequency, duration, and amplitude measures were extracted from stressed and unstressed syllables in interword and intraword comparisons. Analysis of target stress patterns revealed no difference between acoustic marking of stress by 6 adults and 22 toddlers. Findings indicate that children generally control these variables to derive…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Language, Developmental Stages

Dromi, Esther; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
This study of 15 Hebrew-speaking preschool children with specific language impairment and 2 comparison groups tentatively supported the notion that grammatical morphemes were less difficult for subjects if they take the form of stressed and/or lengthened syllables and if they appear in a language in which nouns, verbs, and adjectives must be…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Hebrew