Children's use of phonological information in ambiguity resolution
A view from Mandarin Chinese
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 20366308 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Peng Zhou (0000-0002-2499-6805, Macquarie University, autor correspondente), Yi Su (0000-0002-0203-615X), Yi Esther Su (0000-0002-6948-9508, Macquarie University), Stephen Crain (0000-0002-6370-7447, Macquarie University), Liqun Gao (0000-0001-5384-6219, Beijing Language and Culture University), Likan Zhan (0000-0002-9275-3557, Beijing Language and Culture University) |
| Ano | 2012 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Fascículo | 4 |
| Páginas | 687-730 |
| Data de publicação | 2012-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of Child Language (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602 |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0305000911000249 |
| PMID | 21914244 |
| OpenAlex | W2103729362 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 17 |
| Referências citadas | 41 |
How do children develop the mapping between prosody and other levels of linguistic knowledge? This question has received considerable attention in child language research. In the present study two experiments were conducted to investigate four- to five-year-old Mandarin-speaking children's sensitivity to prosody in ambiguity resolution. Experiment 1 used eye-tracking to assess children's use of stress in resolving structural ambiguities. Experiment 2 took advantage of special properties of Mandarin to investigate whether children can use intonational cues to resolve ambiguities involving speech acts. The results of our experiments show that children's use of prosodic information in ambiguity resolution varies depending on the type of ambiguity involved. Children can use prosodic information more effectively to resolve speech act ambiguities than to resolve structural ambiguities. This finding suggests that the mapping between prosody and semantics/pragmatics in young children is better established than the mapping between prosody and syntax
Ambiguity · Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Phonology · Pragmatics · Prosody · Syntax · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
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