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dc.rights.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisorKeij, B.M.
dc.contributor.authorDekker, L.A.G.
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-24T08:49:52Z
dc.date.available2015-09-24T08:49:52Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.urihttps://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/26533
dc.description.abstractAmong other cues, the native stress pattern is an important cue for word segmentation for infants. German infants show language-specific discrimination between stress patterns at 4 months and develop this into a preference for their native stress pattern at 6 months. From this moment on, they can start developing a stress based segmentation strategy. It has been found that English-learning infants are able to use their native stress pattern as a segmentation cue as early as 7.5 months. German, English and Dutch are stress-timed trochaic languages and it would thus be expected that Dutch-learning infants develop a preference for their native stress pattern within the period of 4 to 7.5 months and that they are also able to use this preference for word segmentation, resulting in a stress based segmentation strategy. This study investigated whether Dutch-learning infants have a preference for their native stress pattern at 6 and 8 months; whether the 8-month-olds are able to use stress as a segmentation cue and if so, which stress pattern facilitates segmentation for them. It was found that the 6-month-olds already have a preference for their native stress pattern. Furthermore, the 8-month-olds were able to segment words based on a universal cue, namely stress clash, but they did not show the ability to segment words using their native stress pattern.
dc.description.sponsorshipUtrecht University
dc.format.extent516053
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.titleStress as a cue for word segmentation by Dutch-learning 8-month-olds
dc.type.contentBachelor Thesis
dc.rights.accessrightsOpen Access
dc.subject.courseuuUCU Liberal Arts and Sciences


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