Word prosody in early child Catalan, Spanish and English

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Astruc, Lluïsa ^a   Payne, Elinor ^b   Post, Brechtje ^c   Prieto, Pilar ^d,e   del Mar Vanrell, Maria ^e  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c JESUS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Catalan; English; First language acquisition metrical patterns; Prosodic word; Rhythm; Spanish

Indexed keywords

SPEECH;

CATALANS; COMPLEX FORMS; ENGLISH; FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION METRICAL PATTERN; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; PROSODIC WORDS; PROSODICS; RHYTHM; SPANISH; WORD LEVEL;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 84928212538     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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