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prosodic bootstrapping: a standalone construct

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Child language acquisition

proposal that infants use prosodic cues, such as phrase boundaries, to segment speech and gain a first foothold on words and syntactic structure.

In child language acquisition, prosodic bootstrapping refers to proposal that infants use prosodic cues, such as phrase boundaries, to segment speech and gain a first foothold on words and syntactic structure. This meaning comes from Christophe (2008) in Language and Speech.[1]

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References

Christophe, A., Millotte, S., Bernal, S., & Lidz, J. (2008). Bootstrapping Lexical and Syntactic Acquisition. Language and Speech, 51(1-2), 61-75. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309080510010501

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