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Yang, Anqi; Chen, Aoju – First Language, 2018
This study investigates how children acquire prosodic focus-marking in Mandarin Chinese. Using a picture-matching game, we elicited spontaneous production of sentences in various focus conditions from children aged four to eleven. We found that Mandarin Chinese-speaking children use some pitch-related cues in some tones and duration in all tones…
Descriptors: Native Language, Mandarin Chinese, Intonation, Suprasegmentals