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Canault, Mélanie; Yamaguchi, Naomi; Paillereau, Nikola; Krzonowski, Jennifer; Roy, Johanna-Pascale; Dos Santos, Christophe; Kern, Sophie – Journal of Child Language, 2020
At the babbling stage, the syllable does not have the temporal characteristics of adult syllables because of the infant's limited oro-motor skills. This research aims to further our knowledge of syllable duration and temporal variability and their evolution with age as an indicator of the development of articulatory skills. The possible impact of…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Syllables, Infants, Articulation (Speech)
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Özçelik, Öner – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2018
This article explores the role of transfer and Universal Grammar (UG) in second language (L2) phonology by investigating the L2 acquisition of stress/prominence in footless languages, such as Turkish and French, which have fixed word- and phrase-final prominence respectively. It is proposed that once the prosodic constituent Foot is projected in a…
Descriptors: Language Universals, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Maionchi-Pino, Norbert; Magnan, Annie; Ecalle, Jean – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2010
This study investigates the syllable's role in the normal reading acquisition of French children at three grade levels (1st, 3rd, and 5th), using a modified version of Cole, Magnan, and Grainger's (1999) paradigm. We focused on the effects of syllable frequency and word frequency. The results suggest that from the first to third years of reading…
Descriptors: Syllables, Phonemes, Word Recognition, Grade 5