Impaired Recognition of Metrical and Syntactic Boundaries in Children with Developmental Language Disorders

In oral language, syntactic structure is cued in part by phrasal metrical hierarchies of acoustic stress patterns. For example, many children’s texts use prosodic phrasing comprising tightly integrated hierarchies of metre and syntax to highlight the phonological and syntactic structure of...

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Main Authors: Susan Richards, Usha Goswami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-02-01
Series:Brain Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/9/2/33