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Direct linkSnow, David – Child Development, 2006
The purpose of this study was to describe the pattern in which English-speaking children acquire intonation. A second goal was to account for emerging intonation from a theoretical perspective. Six groups of 10 children each between the ages of 6 and 23 months participated in individual play sessions with their mothers and an experimenter. Pitch…
Descriptors: Intonation, Language Acquisition, Play, Mothers
Peer reviewedFernald, Anne – Child Development, 1989
Explored the power of intonation of speech addressed to adults and preverbal infants to convey meaningful information to 80 adult listeners. Listeners used intonation to identify speaker's intent with greater accuracy in infant-directed speech than adult-directed speech. (RJC)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adult Child Relationship, Infants, Intonation
