Prosody signals the emergence of intentional communication in the first year of life: evidence from Catalan-babbling infants

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• dc.contributor.author Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-ca
• dc.contributor.author Esteve-Gibert, Núria
• dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-19T09:02:07Z
• dc.date.available 2017-07-19T09:02:07Z
• dc.date.issued 2012
• dc.description.abstract There is considerable debate about whether early vocalizations mimic the target language and whether prosody signals emergent intentional communication. A longitudinal corpus of four Catalan-babbling infants was analyzed to investigate whether children use different prosodic patterns to distinguish communicative from investigative vocalizations and to express intentionality. A total of 2,701 vocalizations from 0;7 to 0;11 were coded acoustically (by marking pitch range and duration), gesturally, and pragmatically (by marking communicative status and specific pragmatic function). The results showed that communicative vocalizations were shorter and had a wider pitch range than investigative vocalizations and that these patterns in communicative vocalizations depended on the intention of the vocalizations: requests and expressions of discontent displayed wider pitch range and longer duration than responses or statements. These results support the hypothesis that babbling children can successfully use a set of prosodic patterns to signal intentional speech.en
• dc.description.sponsorship This research has been funded by the following 5 grants: two research grants awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, ‘The role of tonal scaling and tonal alignment in distinguishing intonational categories in Catalan and Spanish’ (FFI2009-07648/FILO), and ‘Gestures, prosody and linguistic structure’ (FFI2012-31995); a grant awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya to the Grup d'Estudis de Prosòdia (2009SGR-701); the grant RECERCAIXA 2012 for the project ‘Els precursors del llenguatge. Una guia TIC per a pares i educadors’ awarded by Obra Social ‘La Caixa’ and the grant Consolider-Ingenio 2010 (CSD2007-00012).en
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• dc.identifier.citation Esteve-Gibert N, Prieto P. Prosody signals the emergence of intentional communication in the first year of life: evidence from Catalan-babbling infants. J Child Lang. 2013; 40(5): 919-44. DOI: 10.1017/S0305000912000359
• dc.identifier.issn 0305-0009
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/32572
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Pressca
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Child Language. 2013; 40(5): 919-44
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/FFI2009-07648
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/FFI2012-31995
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/CSD2007-00012
• dc.rights © Cambridge University Press. The published version of the article: Esteve-Gibert N, Prieto P. Prosody signals the emergence of intentional communication in the first year of life: evidence from Catalan-babbling infants. J Child Lang. 2013;40(5):919-44] is available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-child-language.
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• dc.subject.other Anàlisi prosòdica (Lingüística)ca
• dc.subject.other Competència comunicativa en els infantsca
• dc.subject.other Parla i gestca
• dc.title Prosody signals the emergence of intentional communication in the first year of life: evidence from Catalan-babbling infantsca
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