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Processing of contrast-marking prosody and its acquisition| old_uid | 11635 |
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| title | Processing of contrast-marking prosody and its acquisition |
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| start_date | 2012/09/14 |
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| schedule | 11h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | A |
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| summary | In this talk, I would like to introduce my past and ongoing research
on how people use prosodic cues to resolve contrastive relations
among referents and how children acquire an ability to make use of
prosody for discourse comprehension. While many early production
studies had claimed that toddlers and preschoolers are able to
produce adult-like prosodic patterns that express newness/givenness
and contrast, more recent production studies suggest that young
children’s prosody is not quite adult-like and the acquisition of
complex tunes that express various pragmatic meaning are learned
rather gradually. The results of our recent cross-linguistic eye-
tracking studies also indicate gradual improvement in the use of
prosodic prominence for online referential resolution. I will discuss
the processing mechanism of the contrast-marking prosody and how it
may be related to general cognitive ability, which may explain a
rather long developmental trajectory. |
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| responsibles | Bel, Welby |
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