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Direct linkVihman, Marilyn; Majoran, Marinella – Journal of Child Language, 2017
Infants learning languages with long consonants, or geminates, have been found to "overselect" and "overproduce" these consonants in early words and also to commonly omit the word-initial consonant. A production study with thirty Italian children recorded at 1;3 and 1;9 strongly confirmed both of these tendencies. To test the…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Skills, Foreign Countries, Hypothesis Testing
