carrierseg laun familiarity status 360 9 Bion R A H BenavidesVarela S Nespor M 2011 Acoustic markers of prominence influence infants and adults segmentation of speech s ID: 290374
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for German 9-month-olds: intonation modulates the extraction of embedded words Stressed syllables are characterized by increased prominence, thus standing out from their linguistic environment ([1]). When segmenting speech, infants acquiring a stress-timed language take these units as word onsets (e.g., [2], [3]). Stressed syllables are acoustically signaled by longer duration, carrierse.g., [la.!"u#.n familiarity status -360. [9] Bion, R. A. H., Benavides-Varela, S., & Nespor, M. (2011). Acoustic markers of prominence influence infants' and adults' segmentation of speech sequences. Language and Speech, 54, 123-140. [10] AUTHORS. (In prep.). Mothers mostly use rising intonation contours when talking to their prelinguistic infants: a corpus study on the frequency of pitch accent types in German IDS. 0246810early!peaklate!peakmedial!