First Language Acquisition

1.SPEECH CLARITY IN INFANT-DIRECTED SINGING: AN ANALYSIS OF GERMAN VOWELS[details] [full paper]
Simone Falk
2.THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE SPECIFIC PROSODIC PREFERENCES DURING THE FIRST HALF YEAR OF LIFE AND ITS RELATION TO LATER LEXICAL DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM GERMAN AND FRENCH[details] [full paper]
Barbara Höhle, Ranka Bijeljac-Babic, Thierry Nazzi, Birgit Herold & Jürgen Weissenborn
3.SIMULTANEOUS BILINGUALS AND FLEGE’S SPEECH LEARNING MODEL[details] [full paper]
Ian Watson
4.THE ROLE OF PROSODY ON THE PERCEPTION OF WORD-ORDER DIFFERENCES BY 14-MONTH-OLD GERMAN INFANTS[details] [full paper]
Ricardo Augusto Hoffmann Bion, Barbara Höhle & Michaela Schmitz
5.INFANTS’ RECOGNITION OF FUNCTION WORDS IN CONTINUOUS SPEECH[details] [full paper]
Rushen Shi
6.ACQUIRING RHYTHMICALLY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES IN A BILINGUAL CONTEXT[details] [full paper]
Conxita Lleó, Martin Rakow & Margaret Kehoe Winkler
7.PERCEPTUAL CATEGORIZATION OF SYNTHESIZED ENGLISH VOWELS FROM BIRTH TO ADULTHOOD[details] [full paper]
Lucie Ménard, Barbara L. Davis & Louis-Jean Boë
8.INTONATIONAL REALISATION OF TOPIC AND FOCUS BY DUTCH-ACQUIRING 4- TO 5-YEAR-OLDS[details] [full paper]
Aoju Chen
9.GERMAN 5-YEAR-OLDS' INTONATIONAL MARKING OF INFORMATION STATUS[details] [full paper]
Laura E. Herbst
10.LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC PRODUCTION PATTERNS IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE[details] [full paper]
Izabelle Grenon, Allison Benner & John H. Esling
11.ACQUISITION OF WORD STRESS IN GERMAN: VOWEL DURATION AND INCOMPLETENESS OF CLOSURE[details] [full paper]
Katrin Schneider
12.THE INFLUENCE OF FREQUENCY ON WORD-INITIAL OBSTRUENT ACQUISITION IN HEXAGONAL FRENCH[details] [full paper]
Julia Monnin, Hélène Loevenbruck & Mary Beckman
13.AN ACOUSTIC COMPARISON OF VOWEL SYSTEMS IN ADULT-DIRECTED-SPEECH AND CHILD-DIRECTED SPEECH: EVIDENCE FROM FRENCH, ENGLISH & JAPANESE[details] [full paper]
Christelle Dodane & Jalaleddin Al-Tamimi
14.THE EFFECT OF ACQUISITION ORDER AND WORD RELATEDNESS ON CODE-SWITCHING COSTS IN BALANCED BILNGUAL SPEAKERS[details] [full paper]
Yi-Hsuan Huang & Janice Fon
15.A REAL-TIME CASE STUDY OF RHOTIC ACQUISITION IN SOUTHERN BRITISH ENGLISH[details] [full paper]
Rachael-Anne Knight, Christina Villafaña Dalcher & Mark J. Jones