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Armstrong, Meghan – Journal of Child Language, 2020
This study explores how young children infer nuances in epistemic modality through prosody. A forced-choice task was used, testing children's (ages three to seven) comprehension of the "might"/"will" distinction (modal condition) as well their ability to modulate the strength of "might" through two prosodic tunes…
Descriptors: Young Children, Inferences, Suprasegmentals, Epistemology