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In:The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition
Edited by Pilar Prieto and Núria Esteve-Gibert
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 23] 2018
► pp. 1–14

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Chapter 1
Introduction

An overview of research on prosodic development

 | Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) | Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Translation and Language Sciences
 | Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, LPL UMR 7309 | Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Translation and Language Sciences | Universitat de Barcelona
Published online: 24 May 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.23.01pri
Article outline
  • Early sensitivity to prosody
  • Learning to produce prosody
  • Moving to meaning and interaction: Prosody and pragmatic development
  • Prosody in bilingualism and in specific populations
  • Directions for future research
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
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