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Marvin Lavechin; Maureen de Seyssel; Hadrien Titeux; Guillaume Wisniewski; Hervé Bredin; Alejandrina Cristia; Emmanuel Dupoux – Developmental Science, 2025
Before they even talk, infants become sensitive to the speech sounds of their native language and recognize the auditory form of an increasing number of words. Traditionally, these early perceptual changes are attributed to an emerging knowledge of linguistic categories such as phonemes or words. However, there is growing skepticism surrounding…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Acoustics, Native Language
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Esteve-Gibert, Núria; Loevenbruck, Hélène; Dohen, Marion; D'Imperio, Mariapaola – Developmental Science, 2022
Previous evidence suggests that children's mastery of prosodic modulations to signal the informational status of discourse referents emerges quite late in development. In the present study, we investigate the children's use of head gestures as it compares to prosodic cues to signal a referent as being contrastive relative to a set of possible…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Nonverbal Communication, Intonation, Suprasegmentals