Language in the infant's mind.
We review recent work that shows that, during the early stages of language acquisition, molar properties such as prosody are important to the infant. We argue that the specification of these structures allows the infant to learn the language processing routines that adults employ.
Mehler
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LSCP, CNRS-EHESS, Paris, France.
Christophe
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D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007802:Language; D007858:Learning; D008960:Models, Psychological