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Grandon, Bénédicte; Vilain, Anne; Gillis, Steven – First Language, 2019
This study explores the use of F0, intensity and duration in the production of two types of prominences in French: primary accent with duration as the main acoustic cue, and secondary accent with F0 and intensity as acoustic cues. These parameters were studied in 13 children using a cochlear implant (CI) and 17 children with a normal hearing (NH),…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Acquisition, French, Pronunciation
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Gil, Sandrine; Hattouti, Jamila; Laval, Virginie – Developmental Psychology, 2016
A crossmodal effect has been observed in the processing of facial and vocal emotion in adults and infants. For the first time, we assessed whether this effect is present in childhood by administering a crossmodal task similar to those used in seminal studies featuring emotional faces (i.e., a continuum of emotional expressions running from…
Descriptors: Children, Suprasegmentals, Emotional Response, Adults
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Gil, Sandrine; Aguert, Marc; Bigot, Ludovic Le; Lacroix, Agnès; Laval, Virginie – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
The ability to infer the emotional states of others is central to our everyday interactions. These inferences can be drawn from several different sources of information occurring simultaneously in the communication situation. Based on previous studies revealing that children pay more heed to situational context than to emotional prosody when…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Intonation, Nonverbal Communication, Computer Games