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Direct linkDemuth, Katherine; Culbertson, Jennifer; Alter, Jennifer – Language and Speech, 2006
Many languages exhibit constraints on prosodic words, where lexical items must be composed of at least two moras of structure, or a binary foot. Demuth and Fee (1995) proposed that children demonstrate early sensitivity to word-minimality effects, exhibiting a period of vowel lengthening or vowel epenthesis if coda consonants cannot be produced.…
Descriptors: Speech, Syllables, Oral Language, Longitudinal Studies
