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Direct linkMolnar, Monika; Lallier, Marie; Carreiras, Manuel – Language Learning, 2014
Duration-based auditory grouping preferences are presumably shaped by language experience in adults and infants, unlike intensity-based grouping that is governed by a universal bias of a loud-soft preference. It has been proposed that duration-based rhythmic grouping preferences develop as a function of native language phrasal prosody.…
Descriptors: Infants, Bilingualism, Syntax, Intonation
Peer reviewedSchmid, Beata – Language Learning, 1986
A study compared the Swedish tone accent acquisition of native-speaking children (N=2) and nonnative speaking college students (N=12). Both groups overgeneralized one pitch pattern to all bisyllabic words. Children used "Accent 2" (two-peaked) and adults "Accent 1" (one-peaked), analogous to the prevailing patterns of their…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Intonation
