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Savita Bernal

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Perception du langage chez le nourrisson : apprendre les mots

2006

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[SCCO]Cognitive science[SCCO] Cognitive scienceComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
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Phrasal prosody constrains word segmentation in French 16-month-olds

2011

Infants who are in the process of acquiring their mother tongue have to find a way of segmenting the continuous speech stream into word-sized units. We present an experiment showing that French 16-month-olds are able to exploit phonological phrase boundaries in order to constrain lexical access. Using the conditioned head-turning technique, we showed that infants trained to turn their head for a bisyllabic word responded more often to sentences that contained this word, than to sentences that contained both syllables of this word separated by a phonological phrase boundary. We compare these results with similar results obtained with English-speaking infants, and discuss their implication fo…

Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammarP101-410Linguistics and LanguagePhraseHead (linguistics)First languageText segmentationLexical accessLanguage and LinguisticsLinguisticsArticleProsodyPsychologyWord (computer architecture)
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Initialiser l'acquisition précoce du langage

2009

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[SCCO]Cognitive science[SCCO] Cognitive scienceComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
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