The Structure and Development of French Prosodic Representations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10255167 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claire Gérard (Université de Poitiers, corresponding author), Juliette Clément (Université René Descartes) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 117-142 |
| Publication date | 1998-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8309 • E-ISSN: 1756-6053 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002383099804100201 |
| PMID | 10194874 |
| OpenAlex | W1861516005 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 31 |
Prosody is assumed to play a crucial role during the preverbal stage of infancy, as well as to be essential for the pragmatics of speech. Our experiments are aimed at analyzing the production and perception of illocutionary forms. Using a semantic neutralization procedure, the performance of children (5, 7, and 9 years old) and adults was compared in two experiments focusing on prosodic representations in production and perception tasks. The first experiment investigated subjects' control of prosody in the unfolding of utterances by studying the acoustic configurations of four illocutionary forms, two corresponding to the linguistic mode (assertion, interrogation) and two corresponding to the emotional mode (happiness, sadness). The second experiment examined subjects' identification of the same illocutionary forms as above, plus an additional form, irony, all produced by an expert speaker, using a word-by-word gating procedure. During speech production, control of the fundamental frequency of the voice emerged earlier in childhood (5-year-olds) than control of rhythmic parameters (7-year-olds) for the linguistic mode, whereas control of all parameters was achieved by the age of five for the emotional mode. Children were similar to adults with respect to the planning of intonation and they used it right from the beginning of the sentence, which was not the case for the planning of duration. During speech perception, only adults were able to anticipate illocutionary forms. Taken together, the results strengthen the idea that prosodic representations are acquired gradually during development, and they show that pitch contour is acquired before duration parameters
Acoustics · Anger · Cognitive psychology · Control (management · Duration (music · Intonation (linguistics · Linguistics · Mode (computer interface · Perception · Pragmatics · Prosody · Sadness · Sentence · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Social Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Speaking
Acoustic determinants of infant preference for motherese speech
Creation of prosody during sentence production.
Intonation and Communicative Intent in Mothers' Speech to Infants
Form and function in children's understanding of ironic utterances
Performance structures
How Children Understand Sarcasm
Distinguishing irony from deception
An experiment involving comprehension of intonation in children from 7 to 10
Communicative functions of pitch range and pitch direction in infants
Early grammatical and prosodic marking of utterance modality in French
Relations between prosodic variables and communicative functions
Intonation comprehension in ten-year-olds
Prosody and the development of comprehension
Timing in late babbling
Young children's use of prosody
Vocal affect expression
Prosody as a Marker of Information Flow in Spoken Discourse
Beginnings of Prosodic Organization
Expanded intonation contours in mothers' speech to newborns
Expression and Meaning
Studies in the perception of language
Speech Acts
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |