Prosodic effects on word reduction.
It is widely known that English-speaking children reduce words by omitting syllables in certain predictable patterns (e.g., banana --> nana). One way to better understand the nature of phonological reductions in children is to examine adults' word reduction behavior. This study explored whether adul...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 45; no. 4; pp. 321 - 354 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Dec2002
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