Do English-learning infants use syllable weight to determine stress?
A linguistic factor governing the assignment of English lexical stress is syllable weight. Heavy syllables which have either a long (tense) vowel or are closed with a consonant are heavy and automatically bear stress. Are infants sensitive to this aspect of the English stress system? Previous resear...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 143 - 159 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Apr-Jun95
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