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Peer reviewedGerken, Louann; And Others – Cognition, 1994
Infants heard sentences in which prosodic structure was either consistent or inconsistent with the syntactic structure. Results suggest that the prosodic information in an individual sentence is not always sufficient to assign a syntactic structure and that learners must engage in active inferential processes to arrive at the correct syntactic…
Descriptors: Infants, Inferences, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
