• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Perception of Prosodic Boundary Correlates by Newborn Infants
  • Contributor: Christophe, Anne; Mehler, Jacques; Sebastián‐Gallés, Núria
  • imprint: Wiley, 2001
  • Published in: Infancy
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0203_6
  • ISSN: 1525-0008; 1532-7078
  • Keywords: Developmental and Educational Psychology ; Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>French newborn infants were shown to perceive acoustic correlates of phonological phrase boundaries in Spanish, with stress‐controlled stimuli. Access to phonological phrase boundaries may facilitate the acquisition of a lexicon, as well as some aspects of phonology and even syntax.</jats:p>