Preschoolers use prosodic mitigation strategies to encode polite stance

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• dc.contributor.author Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-ca
• dc.contributor.author Hübscher, Irisca
• dc.contributor.author Garufi, Martinaca
• dc.date.accessioned 2018-07-11T08:07:29Z
• dc.date.available 2018-07-11T08:07:29Z
• dc.date.issued 2018
• dc.description.abstract While prosody has been shown to act as a syntactic bootstrapper in early language acquisition, little is known about the role that prosody plays in the later development of a child’s ability to communicate pragmatic information such as the expression of politeness. The goal of this paper is to investigate whether preschool children use prosody earlier and more prominently than lexical and morphosyntactic cues to signal a polite stance. To this end, 64 three- to five-year-old Catalan-dominant children participated in a cross-sectional study involving a request production task under four different conditions, with interlocutors either a classmate or an unfamiliar adult (low/high social distance), and the ‘cost’ to the interlocutor’s face either low or high. The results showed that preschool children tend to use mitigating prosodic strategies to encode a polite stance early on and more markedly than they use lexical or morphosyntactic markers. These findings are consistent with what other research has found regarding the prosodic mitigation strategies used by Catalan-speaking adults to mark polite stance.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant FFI2015-66533-P), and a grant awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya (2014SGR-925) to the Prosodic Studies Group. The first author also acknowledges an FPI grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (BES-2013-065019).
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• dc.identifier.citation Hübscher I, Garufi M, Prieto P. Preschoolers use prosodic mitigation strategies to encode polite stance. In: Klessa K, Bachan J, Wagner A, Karpiński M, Śledziński D. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody; 2018 June 13-16; Poznań, Poland. [Lous Tourils]: ISCA; 2018. p. 255-9. DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-52
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-52
• dc.identifier.issn 2333-2042
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35126
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)ca
• dc.relation.ispartof Klessa K, Bachan J, Wagner A, Karpiński M, Śledziński D. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody; 2018 June 13-16; Poznań, Poland. [Lous Tourils]: ISCA; 2018. p. 255-9. DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-52
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2015-66533-P
• dc.rights © 2018 ISCA.
• dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.subject.keyword Acquisition of politeness
• dc.subject.keyword Prosodic development
• dc.subject.keyword Polite stance
• dc.title Preschoolers use prosodic mitigation strategies to encode polite stanceca
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
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