Language in the infant’s mind
- 29 October 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
- Vol. 346 (1315) , 13-20
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1994.0123
Abstract
We review recent work that shows that, during the early stages of language acquisition, molar properties such as prosody are important to the infant. We argue that the specification of these structures allows the infant to learn the language processing routines that adults employ.Keywords
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