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Chung, Wei-Lun; Yang, Hui-Chun – Infant and Child Development, 2022
The study examined storytelling prosody (i.e., prosodic variations in retelling a story) and the relation with oral language in Taiwanese preschool children. One hundred and twenty-eight preschool children aged 4 and 5 were recruited and given the following tasks: nonverbal intelligence, vocabulary, syntax, and storytelling prosody. Children's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Telling, Suprasegmentals, Oral Language
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Thothathiri, Malathi; Snedeker, Jesse; Hannon, Erin – Infant and Child Development, 2012
Distributional information is a potential cue for learning syntactic categories. Recent studies demonstrate a developmental trajectory in the level of abstraction of distributional learning in young infants. Here we investigate the effect of prosody on infants' learning of adjacent relations between words. Twelve- to thirteen-month-old infants…
Descriptors: Infants, Suprasegmentals, Language Acquisition, Sentences