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

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• dc.contributor.author Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-
• dc.contributor.author Estrella, Ana
• dc.contributor.author Thorson, Jill C.
• dc.contributor.author Vanrell, Maria del Mar
• dc.date.accessioned 2021-05-20T08:38:50Z
• dc.date.available 2021-05-20T08:38:50Z
• dc.date.issued 2012
• dc.description.abstract 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.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was supported by grants FFI2009-07648/ FILO and CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 ‘Bilingüismo y Neurociencia Cognitiva CSD2007-00012’ awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and by project 2009 SGR 701 awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
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• dc.identifier.citation Prieto P, Estrella A, Thorson J, Vanrell MDM. Is prosodic development correlated with grammatical and lexical development?: evidence from emerging intonation in Catalan and Spanish. J Child Lang. 2012;39(2):221-57. DOI: 10.1017/S030500091100002X
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S030500091100002X
• dc.identifier.issn 0305-0009
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/47627
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Child Language. 2012;39(2):221-57
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/FFI2009-07648
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PN/CSD2007-00012
• dc.rights © Cambridge University Press. The published version of the article: Prieto P, Estrella A, Thorson J, Vanrell MDM. Is prosodic development correlated with grammatical and lexical development?: evidence from emerging intonation in Catalan and Spanish. J Child Lang. 2012;39(2):221-57 is available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S030500091100002X
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• dc.title Is prosodic development correlated with grammatical and lexical development?: evidence from emerging intonation in Catalan and Spanishen
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