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Christophe, Anne; Millotte, Severine; Bernal, Savita; Lidz, Jeffrey – Language and Speech, 2008
This paper focuses on how phrasal prosody and function words may interact during early language acquisition. Experimental results show that infants have access to intermediate prosodic phrases (phonological phrases) during the first year of life, and use these to constrain lexical segmentation. These same intermediate prosodic phrases are used by…
Descriptors: Nouns, Syntax, Infants, Language Processing

Newman, Rochelle S.; German, Diane J. – Language and Speech, 2002
Studied the influence of lexical factors, known to impact lexical access in adults, on the word retrieval of children. Participants included 320 typical and atypical language learning children, ranging from 7 to 12 years of age. Lexical factors examined included word frequency, age of acquisition, neighborhood density, neighborhood frequency, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Age, Child Language, Comparative Analysis