Maternal speech to infants in a tonal language: Support for universal prosodic features in motherese.

Abstract

Etude quantitative des caracteristiques prosodiques du langage de meres parlant en chinois mandarin a un adulte ou a leur enfant de 2 mois, comparees ensuite aux caracteristiques traditionnellement constatees en anglais et en allemand

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