THE ROLE OF PROSODY IN INFANTS' NATIVE-LANGUAGE DISCRIMINATION ABILITIES: THE CASE OF TWO PHONOLOGICALLY CLOSE LANGUAGES

5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 231-234

  Bosch, Laura ^a   Sebastián Gallés, Núria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

% REDUCTIONS; CATALANS; DISCRIMINATION ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISCRIMINATION; LOW-PASS; NATIVE LANGUAGE; PROSODIC STRUCTURE; ROMANCE LANGUAGES; SYLLABLE STRUCTURES; TIMED LANGUAGES;

LOW PASS FILTERS;

EID: 0042394423     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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