Durational cues which mark clause boundaries in mother-child speech  

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Ratner, Nan Bernstein

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Phonetics vol. 14 no. 2 (Apr. 1986), page 303 - 310.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JOP/14 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Research has shown that infants prefer maternal speech artificially segmented at major syntactic boundaries to speech segmented at other loci. Potential causes for this preference are examined. Phrase and clause boundaries are usually marked by distinctive Fo contour, pre-boundary vowel lengthening and pausing. This study examined patterns of pre-boundary lengthening in mother-child speech. It was found that maternal speech to children on the verge of expressive language ability was characterized by a statistically significant increase in the degree of pre-boundary lengthening normally to be expected in' conversational speech. Observable but non-significant pre-boundary lengthening was observed in maternal speech to children using one-word utterances and to children using combinatorial language. It is suggested that maternal speech exaggerates a salient cue to the identification of major syntactic units in conversational speech.

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