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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Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Federal Fluminense
2011-06-01
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Series: | Gragoatá |
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Online Access: | http://www.gragoata.uff.br/index.php/gragoata/article/view/7 |