Segmentation of vowel-initial words is facilitated by function words
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Segmentation of vowel-initial words is facilitated by function words.
Within the first year of life, infants learn to segment words from fluent speech. Previous research has shown that infants at 0;7·5 can segment consonant-initial words, yet the ability to segment vowel-initial words does not emerge until the age of 1;1-1;4 (0;11 in some restricted cases). In five experiments, we show that infants aged 0;11 but not 0;8 are able to segment vowel-initial words tha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Child Language
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0305-0009,1469-7602
DOI: 10.1017/s0305000914000269