A precursor of language acquisition in young infants¶
Mehler, J., Jusczyk, P., Lambertz, G., Halsted, N., Bertoncini, J., & Amiel-Tison, C. (1988). A precursor of language acquisition in young infants. Cognition.
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- Prosody
- Autosegmental and metrical phonology — the formalization of prosody as a separate tier with its own primitives (tones, phrasal breaks, prominence marks) projecting over the segmental tier. Sentence processing and parsing research — prosodic phrasing as one cue among several to syntactic constituency during online comprehension, disambiguating sentences like "the woman saw the man with the telescope." Pragmatics and conversation analysis — intonation contours signalling speech-act type, turn-yielding, and speaker stance, including sarcasm and surprise read off the envelope with the words held constant. Speech synthesis and recognition — the contour-and-prominence layer that separates intelligible from natural output, which a segments-only model cannot supply. Clinical phonetics — prosodic deficits localized as their own dimension, apart from articulation in right-hemisphere aprosodia and alongside it in the dysarthrias: aprosodia after right-hemisphere lesion, flat range in Parkinson's, atypical intonation in autism, dysarthric monotone, each with its own neurological correlate. Sociolinguistics — socially indexed prosodic markers (uptalk, regional contours) distinguishing speaker groups. Language acquisition — infants discriminating languages by prosody before they parse segments
This sourceThe finding that four-day-old and two-month-old infants tell their native language from another even in low-pass-filtered speech, pointing to prosodic cues.
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- Autosegmental and metrical phonology — the formalization of prosody as a separate tier with its own primitives (tones, phrasal breaks, prominence marks) projecting over the segmental tier. Sentence processing and parsing research — prosodic phrasing as one cue among several to syntactic constituency during online comprehension, disambiguating sentences like "the woman saw the man with the telescope." Pragmatics and conversation analysis — intonation contours signalling speech-act type, turn-yielding, and speaker stance, including sarcasm and surprise read off the envelope with the words held constant. Speech synthesis and recognition — the contour-and-prominence layer that separates intelligible from natural output, which a segments-only model cannot supply. Clinical phonetics — prosodic deficits localized as their own dimension, apart from articulation in right-hemisphere aprosodia and alongside it in the dysarthrias: aprosodia after right-hemisphere lesion, flat range in Parkinson's, atypical intonation in autism, dysarthric monotone, each with its own neurological correlate. Sociolinguistics — socially indexed prosodic markers (uptalk, regional contours) distinguishing speaker groups. Language acquisition — infants discriminating languages by prosody before they parse segments
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