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Peer reviewedMoore, Chris; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1993
Study used two experiments to examine the development of children's comprehension of the use of intonation and belief verbs to mark the relative certainty with which a speaker makes a statement. It is argued that children's understanding of prosody will be best revealed in contexts in which they are required to respond to the pragmatic function of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Intonation, Language Research, Listening Comprehension
