Six-Month-Olds' Detection of Clauses Embedded in Continuous Speech: Effects of Prosodic Well-Formedness

Infancy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 123-147

  Nazzi, Thierry ^a   Kemler Nelson, Deborah G ^c   Jusczyk, Peter W ^b   Jusczyk, Ann Marie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University ^*

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EID: 0000092615     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327078IN0101_11     Document Type: Article

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