Young children's use of prosody in sentence parsing

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 197-217

  Choi, Youngon ^a   Mazuka, Reiko ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Korean; Prosodic phrase; Sentence disambiguation; Syntactic ambiguity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0038508591     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022400424874     Document Type: Conference Paper

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