Faster orientation latencies toward native language in two-month-old infants.
There is increasing evidence that infants can discriminate native and nonnative speech from an early age. Prosody may be essential to this ability. In this paper, we assess the amount of linguistic information needed by 2-month-old infants to recognize whether or not a sentence belongs to their nati...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 21 - 44 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jan-Mar98
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