Finding phrases: On the role of co-verbal facial information in learning word order in infancy.

The input contains perceptually available cues, which might allow young infants to discover abstract properties of the target language. Thus, word frequency and prosodic prominence correlate systematically with basic word order in natural languages. Prelexical infants are sensitive to these frequenc...

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Main Authors: Irene de la Cruz-Pavía, Judit Gervain, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson, Janet F Werker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224786