The relevance of metrical information in early prosodic word acquisition: A comparison of Catalan and Spanish

Language and Speech

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 231-259

  Prieto, Pilar ^a,b  

^a Institució Catalana de la Recerca I Estudis Avançats   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Catalan phonological acquisition; Early acquisition; Prosodic word acquisition; Spanish phonological acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749582828     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309060490020501     Document Type: Article

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