It has been proposed that atypical neural oscillations in both the auditory and the visual
modalities could explain why some individuals fail to learn to read and suffer from …

The ability to distinguish phonetic variations in speech that are relevant to meaning is
essential for infants' language development. Previous studies into the acquisition of prosodic …

To learn words, infants must be sensitive to native phonological contrast. While lexical tone
predominates as a source of phonemic contrast in human languages, there has been little …

All languages employ consonants and vowels as discrete contrastive subcomponents of the
basic timing units of words (syllables). These two classes of phonemes are used to …

This study investigates Spanish heritage speakers' perception and production of Spanish
lexical stress. Stress minimal pairs in various prosodic contexts were used to examine …

Rhythm perception is assumed to be guided by a domain-general auditory principle, the
Iambic/Trochaic Law, stating that sounds varying in intensity are grouped as strong-weak …

Infants start learning the prosodic properties of their native language before 12 months, as
shown by the emergence of a trochaic bias in English-learning infants between 6 and 9 …

Spanish spelling, especially the use of written accent marks, is a major stumbling block for
Spanish heritage language (SHL) learners (Carreira 2002). In fact, Mikulski (2006) found …

This study compares the development of prosodic processing in French-and German-
learning infants. The emergence of language-specific perception of phrase boundaries was …

French-learning infants have language-specific difficulties in processing lexical stress due to
the lack of lexical stress in French. These difficulties in discriminating between words with …