Prosodic differences between declaratives and interrogatives in infant-directed speech
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20368352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan GEFFEN (0000-0001-5415-9605, University of Southern California, corresponding author), Toben H Mintz (0000-0002-5437-7482, University of Southern California) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 968-994 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Child Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0305000916000349 |
| PMID | 27425580 |
| OpenAlex | W2476991390 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 32 |
In many languages, declaratives and interrogatives differ in word order properties, and in syntactic organization more broadly. Thus, in order to learn the distinct syntactic properties of the two sentence types, learners must first be able to distinguish them using non-syntactic information. Prosodic information is often assumed to be a useful basis for this type of discrimination, although no systematic studies of the prosodic cues available to infants have been reported. Analysis of maternal speech in three Standard American English-speaking mother–infant dyads found that polar interrogatives differed from declaratives on the patterning of pitch and duration on the final two syllables, but wh- questions did not. Thus, while prosody is unlikely to aid discrimination of declaratives from wh- questions, infant-directed speech provides prosodic information that infants could use to distinguish declaratives and polar interrogatives. We discuss how learners could leverage this information to identify all question forms, in the context of syntax acquisition
Interrogative · Interrogative word · Linguistics · Prosody · Sentence · Syntax · Word order · Language Development and Disorders · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |