Discovering new words in the flow of speech: the impact of prosody in the lexical acquisition

We discuss the role of prosodic information on lexical acquisition by Brazilian children, focusing on nouns and adjectives. We assume that fluent speech is organized in prosodic constituents hierarchically arranged, partially sensitive to the syntactic structure. Based on experimental results, we cl...

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Main Author: Maria Cristina Name
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal Fluminense 2011-06-01
Series:Gragoatá
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DP
Online Access:http://www.gragoata.uff.br/index.php/gragoata/article/view/7