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The Perception and Representation of Speech by Infants
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January 1996

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... For instance, it has been shown that infants are able to identify lexical or syntactic boundaries based on prosodic cues. In consequence, the ability of infants to segment the speech signal using those cues as bootstraps has been termed prosodic bootstrapping, introduced by Pinker (1984) (for toddlers see also Schröder & Höhle, 2011;Eimas, 1996;Morgan & Demuth, 1996;Morgan, 1986; for three-year-old children Männel & Friederici, 2016). According to the prosodic licensing hypothesis, prosodic constraints are also particularly important in toddlers' speech production in that they show a propensity for prosodically well-formed structures (Demuth, 2007). ...

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The impact of animacy and speech rhythm on the word order of conjuncts in German preschoolers and adults
The Perception and Representation of Speech by Infants
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  • January 1996