The edge factor in early word segmentation: utterance-level prosody enables word form extraction by 6-month-olds

Past research has shown that English learners begin segmenting words from speech by 7.5 months of age. However, more recent research has begun to show that, in some situations, infants may exhibit rudimentary segmentation capabilities at an earlier age. Here, we report on four perceptual experiments...

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