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Direct linkMannel, Claudia; Friederici, Angela D. – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2009
In language learning, infants are faced with the challenge of decomposing continuous speech into relevant units, such as syntactic clauses and words. Within the framework of prosodic bootstrapping, behavioral studies suggest infants approach this segmentation problem by relying on prosodic information, especially on acoustically marked…
Descriptors: Cues, Infants, Acoustics, German
