Chapter published 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

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
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.23.01pri
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