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The perception of clauses in 6- and 8-month-old German-learning infants : influence of pause duration and the natural pause hierarchy
… speech and the role a prosodic marker such as a pause may have in the segmentation process. In the speech signal, syntactic clauses often coincide with intonational phrases (IPhs) (Nespor & Vogel, 1986, p. 190), the boundaries of which are marked by changes in fundamental frequency (e.g., Price, …