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Langus, Alan; Boll-Avetisyan, Natalie; van Ommen, Sandrien; Nazzi, Thierry – Developmental Science, 2023
Rhythm perception helps young infants find structure in both speech and music. However, it remains unknown whether categorical perception of suprasegmental linguistic rhythm signaled by a co-variation of multiple acoustic cues can be modulated by prior between- (music) and within-domain (language) experience. Here we tested 6-month-old…
Descriptors: Language Rhythm, Music, Infants, Speech Communication
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de Carvalho, Alex; Dautriche, Isabelle; Christophe, Anne – Developmental Science, 2016
Two experiments were conducted to investigate whether young children are able to take into account phrasal prosody when computing the syntactic structure of a sentence. Pairs of French noun/verb homophones were selected to create locally ambiguous sentences (["la petite 'ferme'"] ["est très jolie"] "the small farm is very…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Syntax, Sentences, French