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The Role of Stress, Position and Intonation in the Representation and Identification of Early Words.
Echols, Catharine H. – 1988
Two studies examined children's perceptual biases in extracting or identifying words from the stream of speech. In one study, evidence for the salience of stressed and final syllables was found. Young children less frequently omitted those syllables from their productions and produced unstressed and nonfinal syllables less accurately. A second…
Descriptors: Child Language, Intonation, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
