Is prosodic development correlated with grammatical and lexical development? Evidence from emerging intonation in Catalan and Spanish

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 221-257

  Prieto, Pilar ^a   Estrella, Ana ^b   Thorson, Jill ^c   Vanrell, Maria Del Mar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b Catholic University of Quito   (Ecuador)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPAIN; VOICE;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SPAIN; VOICE;

EID: 84856812242     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S030500091100002X     Document Type: Article

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