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Nazzi, Thierry; Iakimova, Galina; Bertoncini, Josiane; Fredonie, Severine; Alcantara, Carmela – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
Four experiments explored French-learning infants' ability to segment words from fluent speech. The focus was on bisyllabic words to investigate whether infants segment them as whole words or segment each syllable individually. No segmentation effects were found in 8-month-olds. Twelve-month-olds segmented individually both the final syllables…
Descriptors: Syllables, French, Infants, Language Acquisition