Early prosodic acquisition in bilingual infants: the case of the perceptual trochaic bias

Infants start learning the prosodic properties of their native language before 12 months, as shown by the emergence of a trochaic bias in English-learning infants between 6 and 9 months (Jusczyk et al., 1993), and in German-learning infants between 4 and 6 months (Höhle et al., 2009; Höhle et al., 2...

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Main Authors: Ranka eBijeljac-Babic, Barbara eHoehle, Thierry eNazzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00210/full