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Segmenting Words from Fluent Speech during Infancy--Challenges and Opportunities in a Bilingual Context
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Polka, Linda; Orena, Adriel John; Sundara, Megha; Worrall, Jennifer – Developmental Science, 2017
Previous research shows that word segmentation is a language-specific skill. Here, we tested segmentation of bi-syllabic words in two languages (French; English) within the same infants in a single test session. In Experiment 1, monolingual 8-month-olds (French; English) segmented bi-syllabic words in their native language, but not in an…
Descriptors: Infants, Syllables, English, French