The recognition of the prosodic focus position in German-learning infants from 4 to 14 months
- The aim of the present study was to elucidate in a study with 4-, 6-, 8-, and 14-month-old German-learning children, when and how they may acquire the regularities which underlie Focus-to-Stress Alignment (FSA) in the target language, that is, how prosody is associated with specific communicative functions. Our findings suggest, that 14-month-olds have already found out that German allows for variable focus positions, after having gone through a development which goes from a predominantly prosodically driven processing of the input to a processing where prosody interacts more and more with the growing lexical and syntactic knowledge of the child.
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| Author details: | Michaela Schmitz, Barbara HöhleORCiDGND, Anja Müller, Jürgen Weissenborn |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19566 |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Publication year: | 2006 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2008/07/21 |
| Tag: | HTP; infants; prosodic focus |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
| License (German): |  Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
| External remark: | erschienen in: Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; Working papers of the SFB 632. - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl.Vol. 5. - 2006. - 221 S. : graph. Darst.ISSN 1614-4708ISBN 978-3-939469-41-4 URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13047 --> bestellen |
