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Direct linkHerold, Debora S.; Nygaard, Lynne C.; Namy, Laura L. – Language and Speech, 2012
Prosody plays a variety of roles in infants' communicative development, aiding in attention modulation, speech segmentation, and syntax acquisition. This study investigates the extent to which parents also spontaneously modulate prosodic aspects of infant directed speech in ways that distinguish semantic aspects of language. Fourteen mothers of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Picture Books, Mothers, Semantics
Anderson, Catherine; Carlson, Katy – Language and Speech, 2010
A pair of speaking and listening studies investigated the prosody of sentences with temporary Object/Clause and Late/Early Closure ambiguities. Speakers reliably produced prosodic cues that allowed listeners to disambiguate Late/Early Closure sentences, but only infrequently produced prosody that disambiguated Object/Clause sentences, as shown by…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Syntax, Prediction
Titone, Debra A.; Koh, Christine K.; Kjelgaard, Margaret M.; Bruce, Stephanie; Speer, Shari R.; Wingfield, Arthur – Language and Speech, 2006
Two experiments examined whether young and older adults differ in comprehending sentences that contain temporary syntactic closure ambiguities. Experiment 1 examined age-related differences using the Auditory Moving Window (AMW) task, in which sentences were presented in a segment-by-segment self-paced fashion. Experiment 2 examined age-related…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Age Differences, Young Adults, Older Adults
