Prosody in first language acquisition - Acquiring intonation as a tool to organize information in conversation

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 90-110

  Speer, Shari R ^a   Ito, Kiwako ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 59849085573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1749818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00103.x     Document Type: Article

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