While it is well known that prosodic features are central in the conveyance of pragmatic
meaning across languages, developmental research has assessed a narrow set of
pragmatic functions of prosody. Research on prosodic ...
Over recent decades much research has analyzed the relevance of 9- to 20- month-old
infants’ early imitation skills (object- and language-based imitation) for language development. Yet there have been few systematic ...
Pragmatics, defined as the ability to use language socially, matters
enormously in our day-to-day life and involves both the linguistic
and social aspects of human communication. The literature focusing
on developmental ...
