English-learning infants' segmentation of verbs from fluent speech

Language and Speech

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 279-298

  Nazzi, Thierry ^a,b,e   Dilley, Laura C ^c,d   Jusczyk, Ann Marie ^b   Shattuck Hufnagel, Stefanie ^d   Jusczyk, Peter W ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Lexical classes; Pitch accent; Prosody; Stress pattern; Word onset type; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 29544443556     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309050480030201     Document Type: Article

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