The Production-Comprehension Relationship in the Acquisition of Prosodic Focus Marking
The Role of Age and Individual Differences
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 5900492 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Anqi Chen (0000-0002-6745-9794, Utrecht University, autor de correspondencia), Huub Van Den Bergh (0000-0002-1320-5334, Utrecht University) |
| Año | 2025 |
| Volumen | 10 |
| Número | 9 |
| Páginas | 234 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2025-09-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Editorial | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages10090234 |
| OpenAlex | W4414248221 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 56 |
Central to the debate on the production-comprehension relationship in prosodic development is the acquisition of the focus-to-prosody mapping in West Germanic languages. Past research primarily examined the production-comprehension relationship in 4- to 5-year-old English and Dutch-speaking children and yielded evidence both for and against a production-precedes-comprehension asymmetry. Recent research shows a protracted developmental trajectory to adult-like use of the full range of prosodic means for focus marking in Dutch-speaking children, suggesting a comprehension-precedes-production asymmetry. Little is known about whether the production-comprehension relationship changes with age and differs between children. To elucidate the effect of age on the production-comprehension relationship and shed initial light on individual differences in this domain, we investigated production and comprehension of the focus-to-prosody mapping in SVO sentences by 71 Dutch-speaking children aged 4 to 8 years, using picture-based production and online comprehension tasks. Multilevel modelling showed that the children's comprehension was predictive of their production in sentence-initial focus but not in sentence-final focus across ages. However, this predictive relationship between comprehension and production differed for different children depending on whether their comprehension was adult-like. In conclusion, we have found limited evidence that children's comprehension of the focus-to-prosody mapping supports their use of prosody to mark focus in production. The stability of individual differences across development is similar to findings in other domains of language acquisition
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