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Surányi, Balázs; Pinter, Lilla – Journal of Child Language, 2022
This study investigates children's identification of prosodic focus in Hungarian, a language in which syntactic focus-marking is mandatory. Assuming that regular syntactic focus-marking diminishes the disambiguating role of prosodic marking in acquisition, we expected that in sentences in which focus is only disambiguated by prosody, adult-like…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Suprasegmentals, Hungarian, Syntax
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Prieto, Pilar; Estrella, Ana; Thorson, Jill; Vanrell, Maria del Mar – Journal of Child Language, 2012
This investigation focuses on the development of intonation patterns in four Catalan-speaking children and two Spanish-speaking children between 0 ; 11 and 2 ; 4. Pitch contours were prosodically analyzed within the Autosegmental Metrical framework in all meaningful utterances, for a total of 6558 utterances. The pragmatic meaning and…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Intonation, Grammar, Spanish Speaking