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Direct linkKempe, Vera; Schaeffler, Sonja; Thoresen, John C. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
The study examines whether speakers exaggerate prosodic cues to syntactic structure when addressing young children. In four experiments, 72 mothers and 48 non-mothers addressed either real 2-4-year old or imaginary children as well as adult confederates using syntactically ambiguous sentences like "Touch the cat with the spoon" intending to convey…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Mothers, Form Classes (Languages)
