Early Prosodic Acquisition in Bilingual Infants: The Case of the Perceptual Trochaic Bias

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Bijeljac Babic, Ranka ^a,b   Höhle, Barbara ^c   Nazzi, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

bilinguals; dominance effects; infants; language; lexical stress; prosody

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020517153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00210     Document Type: Article

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