Intonation targets of yes/no questions by Spanish and German monolingual and bilingual children

Lleó, Conxita; Rakow, Martin

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“…Although the target level was not accomplished, the prosodic meaning of the utterance was retained. Previous investigations have also pointed out the lack of control of pitch range and tonal scaling in infants' early productions (Astruc et al, 2009 ;Vanrell et al, 2010 ;Lleó et al, 2004 ;Lleó & Rakow, 2011 ; for a review, see Snow & Balog, 2002: 1035.…”

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Is prosodic development correlated with grammatical and lexical development? Evidence from emerging intonation in Catalan and Spanish

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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 communicative function were also assessed. Three main conclusions arise from the results. First, the study shows that the Autosegmental Metrical model can be successfully used to transcribe early intonation contours. Second, results reveal that children's emerging intonation is largely independent of grammatical development, and generally it develops well before the appearance of two-word combinations. As for the relationship between lexical and intonational development, the data show that the emergence of intonational grammar is related to the onset of speech and the presence of a small lexicon. Finally, we discuss the implications of these results for the biological hypothesis of intonational production.

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Is prosodic development correlated with grammatical and lexical development? Evidence from emerging intonation in Catalan and Spanish

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“…Some studies have concentrated on the acquisition of the phonetic properties of interrogative intonation, like Lleó and Rakow (2011), who showed that monolingual Spanish children do not produce the scaling properties of nuclear and prenuclear pitch accents in statements and interrogatives in a target-like way before three years of age. Armstrong (2012) investigated the acquisition of interrogative forms by two Puerto Rican Spanish toddlers between the ages of 19 and 43 months, taking into account the relationship between intonation form and meaning.…”

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“…Very few studies have analyzed the development of interrogative intonation (e.g., Lleó & Rakow 2011;Armstrong 2012, for Spanish;Prieto et al 2012, for Catalan and Spanish; among others). Some studies have concentrated on the acquisition of the phonetic properties of interrogative intonation, like Lleó and Rakow (2011), who showed that monolingual Spanish children do not produce the scaling properties of nuclear and prenuclear pitch accents in statements and interrogatives in a target-like way before three years of age.…”

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The acquisition of melodic form and meaning in yes-no interrogatives by Catalan and Spanish speaking children

Thorson

Borràs-Comes

Crespo-Sendra

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This study investigates the link between interrogative intonation and meaning in child-directed speech (henceforth CDS) and how this is reflected in the early development of yes-no-interrogatives of Catalan-and Spanish-speaking children. Previous research found that children before the two-word period produce several types of interrogatives and that their productions generally reflect the adult inventory pattern (Lleó & Rakow 2011;Prieto et al. 2012). Yet prior studies have not included an analysis of the pragmatic meanings that are encoded intonationally. This investigation takes an integrated approach to the study of intonational development within the domain of yes-no questions, exploring further the correspondence between intonational form and meaning in early interrogative production and relating it to the pragmatics of interrogative intonation in child-directed speech. A set of 723 interrogative utterances produced by 3 Catalan-and 2 Spanish-acquiring children between the onset of interrogative production and 2;4 were pragmatically and then prosodically analyzed, as well as a set of 867 utterances from Catalan and Spanish CDS. The data were extracted from the Serra-Solé Catalan Corpus and the Ojea and López-Ornat Spanish Corpora in CHILDES. Production results show that all children perform some instance of questioning before the two-word period and that their productions generally reflect the adult inventory patterns. Moreover, the results show a preference relationship between the different types of nuclear pitch configurations and the pragmatic meanings that underlie the yes-no-interrogative forms. Finally, these results highlight the importance of the assessment of form-meaning relationships for the understanding of intonational development.

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“…As Queen (2001) notes, there is a general lack of research at the suprasegmental level from the bilingual perspective, and the majority of extant studies have focused on intonation production and transfer in second language learners (for review see, Queen, 2001). A limited number of studies have been conducted on the intonation of balanced bilinguals, including examinations of balanced Spanish-English (Penfield & Ornstein-Galicia, 1985), Canadian French-English (Cichocki & Lepetit, 1986), German-Spanish Lleó & Rakow, 2011), and Catalan-Spanish bilinguals (Simonet, 2008). Again, these studies have focused only on non-mixed language contexts, examining speakers operating in one of their two languages.…”

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The phonetics of insertional code-switching

Olson

2012

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This study investigates the phonetic production of Spanish-English insertional code-switches, constituents of an embedded language inserted within a discourse of a matrix language. While previous research on the phonetics of code-switching has focused exclusively on the segmental properties, the current study provides a detailed examination of the suprasegmental features of code-switched tokens, including pitch height and duration. Code-switched productions are compared with non-code-switched tokens, and results indicate that insertional code-switched tokens are produced with a degree of hyper-articulation, evidenced by an increase in pitch height and duration. The results are discussed within Hyper- and Hypo-articulation Theory, drawing on the notion of a decreased local probability incurred by insertional code-switches.

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Intonation targets of yes/no questions by Spanish and German monolingual and bilingual children

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Is prosodic development correlated with grammatical and lexical development? Evidence from emerging intonation in Catalan and Spanish

Is prosodic development correlated with grammatical and lexical development? Evidence from emerging intonation in Catalan and Spanish

The acquisition of melodic form and meaning in yes-no interrogatives by Catalan and Spanish speaking children

The phonetics of insertional code-switching

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