Early segmentation of fluent speech by infants acquiring French: Emerging evidence for crosslinguistic differences

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 283-299

  Nazzi, Thierry ^a   Iakimova, Galina ^a   Bertoncini, Josiane ^a   Frédonie, Séverine ^a   Alcantara, Carmela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Crosslinguistic comparisons; French; Lexical acquisition; Rhythm; Speech segmentation; Syllable

Indexed keywords

EID: 33244486518     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2005.10.004     Document Type: Article

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