The Development of Word Stress Processing in French and Spanish Infants
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The Development of Word Stress Processing in French and Spanish Infants Katrin Skoruppa a , Ferran Pons b , Laura Bosch b , Anne Christophe c , Dominique Cabrol d & Sharon Peperkamp c a Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex b Departament de Psicologia Bàsica and Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (IR3C), Universitat de Barcelona c Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Département d'Etudes Cognitives Ecole Normale Supérieure, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Paris d Maternité Port-Royal, Université Paris Descartes Version of record first published: 29 Nov 2012.
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