@ARTICLE{Christophe2003,
  author = {Christophe, A. and Nespor, M. and M. T. Guasti and Van Ooyen, B.},
  title = {{Prosodic structure and syntactic acquisition: the case of the head-direction
	parameter}},
  journal = {Developmental Science},
  year = {2003},
  volume = {6},
  pages = {211--220},
  number = {2},
  abstract = {We propose that infants may learn about the relative order of heads
	and complements in their language before they know many words, on
	the basis of prosodic information (relative prominence within phonological
	phrases). We present experimental evidence that 6--12-week-old infants
	can discriminate two languages that differ in their head direction
	and its prosodic correlate, but have otherwise similar phonological
	properties (i.e. French and Turkish). This result supports the hypothesis
	that infants may use this kind of prosodic information to bootstrap
	their acquisition of word order.},
  publisher = {Blackwell Synergy}
}

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