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Zahner, Katharina; Schonhuber, Muna; Braun, Bettina – Journal of Child Language, 2016
We tested German nine-month-olds' reliance on pitch and metrical stress for segmentation. In a headturn-preference paradigm, infants were familiarized with trisyllabic words (weak-strong-weak (WSW) stress pattern) in sentence-contexts. The words were presented in one of three naturally occurring intonation conditions: one in which high pitch was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Child Language, German