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Peer reviewedVihman, Marilyn May; DePaolis, Rory A.; Davis, Barbara L. – Child Development, 1998
Analyzed vocalizations/verbalizations from children acquiring English or French in later single-word period to identify trochaic bias. Found that neither language's vocalizations were exclusively trochaic. French/English differences in iambic productions and acoustic realization of accent were traceable to adult input. Distribution of trochaic and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, English, French
