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Thorson, Jill C.; Morgan, James L. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Our motivation was to examine how toddler (2;6) and adult speakers of American English prosodically realize information status categories. The aims were three-fold: (1) to analyze how adults phonologically make information status distinctions; (2) to examine how these same categories are signaled in toddlers' spontaneous speech; and (3) to analyze…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Toddlers, Preferences