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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