English-learning infants' perception of word stress patterns

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Skoruppa, Katrin ^a   Cristià, Alejandrina ^b   Peperkamp, Sharon ^c   Seidl, Amanda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST YEAR; INITIAL STRESS; STRESS PATTERNS;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD LANGUAGE; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 79960692610     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3590169     Document Type: Article

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