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Peer reviewedHochberg, Judith A. – Journal of Child Language, 1988
Analysis of longitudinal data from four Mexican-American children to explore two aspects of the acquisition of Spanish word stress indicates that children approach such learning unbiased toward any particular stress type. Children's attention to phonetic or semantic aspects of normatively unstressed syllables leads them to shift stress to that…
Descriptors: Child Language, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
