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Direct linkPierrehumbert, Janet B. – Language and Speech, 2003
In learning to perceive and produce speech, children master complex language-specific patterns. Daunting language-specific variation is found both in the segmental domain and in the domain of prosody and intonation. This article reviews the challenges posed by results in phonetic typology and sociolinguistics for the theory of language…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Infants
