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Download full textLocal, John – York Papers in Linguistics, 1980
The frequencies and co-occurrence distributions of some of the prosodic features in the speech of children are discussed. The emphasis is on the determination of systems and structure of non-segmental lectal variability in the children's speech without primary reference to function. The primary data consisted of selected episodes of connected…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Intonation, Language Acquisition
