Prosodic disambiguation of noun/verb homophones in child-directed speech
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Are Homophones Acoustically Distinguished in Child-Directed Speech?
Many approaches to early word learning posit that children assume a one-to-one mapping of form and meaning. However, children's early vocabularies contain homophones, words that violate that assumption. Children might learn such words by exploiting prosodic differences between homophone meanings that are associated with lemma frequency (Gahl, 2008). Such differences have not yet been documented...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Child Language
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0305-0009,1469-7602
DOI: 10.1017/s030500091600009x