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Infants’ Perception of the Intonation of Broad and Narrow Focus
| dc.contributor.author | Butler, Joseph | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vigário, Marina | |
| dc.contributor.author | Frota, Sónia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-25T16:34:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-01-25T16:34:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Infants perceive intonation contrasts early in development in contrast to lexical stress but similarly to lexical pitch accent. Previous studies have mostly focused on pitch height/direction contrasts; however, languages use a variety of pitch features to signal meaning, including differences in pitch timing. In this study, we investigate infants’ perception of the prosodic contrast that cues the difference between all-new information (broad focus) and the highlighting of a particular word (narrow/contrastive focus) in European Portuguese (EP), and which has been described as having pitch timing as its key feature. Using a modified version of the visual habituation paradigm, EP learning infants discriminated this contrast at 12 months but not at 7 months, deviating from previous findings of a precocious ability to perceive pitch distinctions. These results suggest different developmental trajectories of the perception of different prosodic contrasts, underlining the importance of the nature of the cues signalling a given contrast in a given language. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | Joseph Butler, Marina Vigário & Sónia Frota - Infants’ Perception of the Intonation of Broad and Narrow Focus. Language Learning and Development Vol. 12, Iss. 1, 2016 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/15475441.2015.1020376 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1547-5441 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1547-3341 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10451/30960 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.relation | Development of prosodic structure and intonation | |
| dc.relation | Eyes and Brain - Early Markers of Language Development | |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15475441.2015.1020376 | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Infants’ Perception of the Intonation of Broad and Narrow Focus | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
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| oaire.awardNumber | PTDC/CLE-LIN/108722/2008 | |
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| oaire.awardTitle | Development of prosodic structure and intonation | |
| oaire.awardTitle | Eyes and Brain - Early Markers of Language Development | |
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| oaire.citation.endPage | 13 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 1 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Language Learning and Development | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | 12(1) | pt_PT |
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| oaire.fundingStream | 3599-PPCDT | |
| project.funder.identifier | http://doi.org/10.13039/501100001871 | |
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| project.funder.name | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | |
| project.funder.name | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |
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