Is early word-form processing stress-full? How natural variability supports recognition

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 241-266

  Bortfeld, Heather ^a,b   Morgan, James L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emphatic stress; Focus stress; Infants; Language development; Nonemphatic stress; Segmentation; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 77952321136     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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