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...

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Publicado en:Language & Speech Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 143 - 159
Autores principales: Turk AE, Jusczyk PW, Gerken L
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Apr-Jun95
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