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Direct linkChen, Hui-Ching; Szendroi, Krista; Crain, Stephen; Höhle, Barbara – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
This study investigated whether Mandarin speakers interpret prosodic information as focus markers in a sentence-picture verification task. Previous production studies have shown that both Mandarin-speaking adults and Mandarin-speaking children mark focus by prosodic information (Ouyang and Kaiser in Lang Cogn Neurosc 30(1-2):57-72, 2014; Yang and…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Language Processing
Zhou, Peng; Crain, Stephen; Zhan, Likan – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
This study examined 4-year-old Mandarin-speaking children's sensitivity to prosodic cues in resolving speech act ambiguities, using eye-movement recordings. Most previous on-line studies have focused on children's use of prosody in resolving structural ambiguities. Although children have been found to be sensitive to prosodic information, they use…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Native Speakers, Mandarin Chinese, Suprasegmentals
