Correlates of linguistic rhythm in the speech signal

Cognition

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 265-292

  Ramus, Franck ^a   Nespor, Marina ^b,c   Mehler, Jacques ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Language discrimination; Phonological bootstrapping; Prosody; Speech rhythm; Syllable structure

Indexed keywords

HEARING; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHYTHM; SPEECH;

EID: 0032725252     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00058-X     Document Type: Article

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