Abstract
The reduplicative babbling of five French- and five English-learning infants, recorded when the infants were between the ages of 7;3 months and 11;1 months on average, was examined for evidence of language-specific prosodic patterns. Certain fundamental frequency and syllable-timing patterns in the infants’ utterances clearly reflected the influence of the ambient language. The evidence for language-specific influence on syllable amplitudes was less clear. The results are discussed in terms of a possible order of acquisition for the prosodic features of fundamental frequency, timing, and amplitude.
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