How Accessible is the Lexicon in Motherese?

Nan Bernstein Ratner | The University of Maryland, College Park

Becky Rooney | The University of Maryland, College Park

Keywords: child-directed speech, input, lexicon, motherese, parsing strategies, redundancy, segmentation, very short utterances (VSU’s)

Published online: 09 August 2001
https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.23.06ber

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