Phrasal prosody constrains syntactic analysis in toddlers
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Phrasal prosody constrains syntactic analysis in toddlers.
This study examined whether phrasal prosody can impact toddlers' syntactic analysis. French noun-verb homophones were used to create locally ambiguous test sentences (e.g., using the homophone as a noun: [le bébésouris] [a bien mangé] - [the baby mouse] [ate well] or using it as a verb: [le bébé] [sourità sa maman] - [the baby] [smiles to his mother], where brackets indicate prosodic phrase bou...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.02.018