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- Title
Morae and Syllables: Rhythmical Basis of Speech Representations in Neonates.
- Authors
Bertoncini, Josiane; Floccia, Caroline; Nazzi, Thierry; Mehler, Jacques
- Abstract
In the present study, researchers used the High-Amplitude Sucking procedure to test whether 3-day-old French infants discriminate lists of Japanese words. During the process of word recognition, adult listeners appear to use perceptual strategies that are related to the phonological properties of their language. Recent data have shown that newborns do not process multisyllabic utterances as undecomposable entities, but that they are able to detect common structural properties shared by multisyllabic strings.
- Subjects
SYLLABLE (Grammar); SPEECH; NEWBORN infants; LANGUAGE rhythm; WORD recognition; FRENCH people
- Publication
Language & Speech, 1995, Vol 38, Issue 4, p311
- ISSN
0023-8309
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/002383099503800401