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Peer reviewedDavis, Barbara L.; MacNeilage, Peter F.; Matyear, Christine L.; Powell, Julia K. – Child Development, 2000
Compared disyllabic sequences from infants and adults according to their use of frequency, intensity, and duration to mark stress. Concluded that infants in English language environments produce adult-like stress patterns before they produce lexical items, which specify stress. Acoustic and perceptual analyses indicated infants use three acoustic…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adults, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis
