Elsevier, Infant Behavior & Development, 1(34), p. 107-110
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2010.10.003
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We examined infants' perception of the intonational characteristics of yes-no questions and declarative sentences in English. Both infants habituated to questions and those habituated to declaratives preferred the question forms at test, suggesting that infants process these two sentence types differently.