Prosodic cues to word order: What level of representation?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Bernard, Carline ^a   Gervain, Judit ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

French; Language acquisition; Prosodic bootstrapping; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870874794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00451     Document Type: Article

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