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Romøren, Anna Sara H.; Chen, Aoju – Journal of Child Language, 2022
We investigated how Central Swedish-speaking four to eleven-year-old children acquire the prosodic marking of narrow focus, compared to adult controls. Three measurements were analysed: placement of the prominence-marking high tone (prominence H), pitch range effects of the prominence H, and word duration. Subject-verb-object sentences were…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Swedish, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
Zanchi, Paola; Zampini, Laura; Pancani, Luca; Berici, Roberta; D'Imperio, Mariapaola – First Language, 2021
This work presents an analysis of the intonation competence in a group of Italian children with cochlear implant (CI). Early cochlear implantation plays a crucial role in language development for children who were born deaf in that it favours the acquisition of complex aspects of language, such as the intonation structure. A story-generation task,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Assistive Technology
Adamidou, Christina; Okalidou, Areti; Fourakis, Marios; Printza, Athanasia; Kyriafinis, Georgios – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: ?he lexical stress pattern (trochaic vs. iambic) may affect various aspects of word learning and word production in children with cochlear implants (CIs). This study aimed to investigate lexical stress effects in word learning by Greek-speaking children with CIs. Method: A word learning paradigm, consisting of a word production and a word…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Task Analysis, Word Recognition, Greek
Chung, Wei-Lun; Jarmulowicz, Linda; Bidelman, Gavin M. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2021
Background: Several studies have revealed that prosody contributes to reading acquisition. However, the relation between awareness of prosodic patterns and different facets of language ability (e.g., vocabulary knowledge) in school-age children remains unclear. This study measured awareness of prosodic patterns using non-speech and speech stimuli.…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Cues, Suprasegmentals, Reading Ability
Leonard, Laurence B.; Kueser, Justin B. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2019
Background: During grammatical treatment of children with developmental language disorder (DLD), it is natural for therapists to focus on the grammatical details of the target language that give the children special difficulty. However, along with the language-specific features of the target (e.g., for English, add -s to verbs in present tense,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Impairments, English, Difficulty Level
Chen, Fei; Zhang, Kaile; Guo, Qingqing; Lv, Jia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore when and how Mandarin-speaking children use contextual cues to normalize speech variability in perceiving lexical tones. Two different cognitive mechanisms underlying speech normalization (lower level acoustic normalization and higher level acoustic-phonemic normalization) were investigated through the…
Descriptors: Cues, Context Effect, Acoustics, Phonemics
Pasquinelli, Rennie; Tessier, Anne Michelle; Karas, Zachary; Hu, Xiaosu; Kovelman, Ioulia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The fine-tuning of linguistic prosody in later childhood is poorly understood, and its neurological processing is even less well studied. In particular, it is unknown if grammatical processing of prosody is left- or rightlateralized in childhood versus adulthood and how phonological working memory might modulate such lateralization.…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Lateral Dominance, Language Processing, Intonation
Angeliki Athanasopoulou – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Prosody (prominence, rhythm, intonation, etc.) is crucial for using language efficiently and conveying one's intended meaning at different linguistic levels. Therefore, a child has to acquire the prosodic system of the language in order to become a competent speaker of that language. Even though the importance of prosody is well known, we still do…
Descriptors: Children, Suprasegmentals, Intonation, Language Rhythm
Saindon, Mathieu R.; Trehub, Sandra E.; Schellenberg, E. Glenn; van Lieshout, Pascal – Journal of Child Language, 2016
Young children are slow to master conventional intonation patterns in their "yes/no" questions, which may stem from imperfect understanding of the links between terminal pitch contours and pragmatic intentions. In Experiment 1, five to ten-year-old children and adults were required to judge utterances as questions or statements on the…
Descriptors: Intonation, Pragmatics, Language Acquisition, Intention
Dimroth, Christine; Schimke, Sarah; Turco, Giuseppina – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2018
We examine whether German children attach an adultlike relevance to the pragmatic category of polarity contrast (e.g., "In my picture the child IS eating the candies" following after "In my picture the child is not eating the candies") with linguistic expressions (i.e., the affirmative particles…
Descriptors: German, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition, Children
Goffman, Lisa; Westover, Stefanie – Journal of Child Language, 2013
The aim of this study was to determine, using speech error and articulatory analyses, whether the binary distinction between iambs and trochees should be extended to include additional prosodic subcategories. Adults, children who are normally developing, and children with specific language impairment (SLI) participated. Children with SLI were…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Language Research, Language Acquisition
Prieto, Pilar; Estrella, Ana; Thorson, Jill; Vanrell, Maria del Mar – Journal of Child Language, 2012
This investigation focuses on the development of intonation patterns in four Catalan-speaking children and two Spanish-speaking children between 0 ; 11 and 2 ; 4. Pitch contours were prosodically analyzed within the Autosegmental Metrical framework in all meaningful utterances, for a total of 6558 utterances. The pragmatic meaning and…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Intonation, Grammar, Spanish Speaking
Anderssen, Merete; Bentzen, Kristine; Rodina, Yulia – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2012
This article investigates the acquisition of object shift in Norwegian child language. We show that object shift is complex derivationally, distributionally, and referentially, and propose a new analysis in terms of IP-internal topicalization. The results of an elicited production study with 27 monolingual Norwegian-speaking children (ages…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Child Language, Monolingualism, Norwegian
Mannel, Claudia; Friederici, Angela D. – Developmental Science, 2011
This study explored the electrophysiology underlying intonational phrase processing at different stages of syntax acquisition. Developmental studies suggest that children's syntactic skills advance significantly between 2 and 3 years of age. Here, children of three age groups were tested on phrase-level prosodic processing before and after this…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Children, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes

Weismer, Susan Ellis; Hesketh, Linda J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1998
A study examined the influence of emphatic stress on word learning of 20 children (ages 6 to 9) with specific language impairments and 20 typical children. There were no significant stress effects for comprehension or recognition of novel words; however, children in both groups exhibited better word production when presented with emphatic stress.…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Intonation, Language Acquisition
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