Tone and intonation in Mandarin babytalk to presyllabic infants: Comparison with regiters of adult conversation and foreign language instruction  

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Papousek, Mechthild ; Hwang, Shu-Fen C.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Applied Psycholinguistics vol. 12 no. 4 (1991), page 481-504.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/APP/12 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Six native speakers of Mandarin Chinese recorded 140 preselected utterances in three role-play contexts that differentially elicited registers of babyta!k to presyllabic infants (BTP), foreign language instruction (FLI), and adult conversation (AC). Sound spectrograms were used to obtain to measures of fundamental frequency (Fo) patterns for comparisons among the three registers. In FLl, the speakers expanded Fo patterns in time and Fo range in comparison with AC. They clarified lexical tonal information and seemed to reduce suprasegmental information. In BTP, the speakers raised peak and minimum Fo, reduced the rate of Fo fluctuations, and increased the proportion of terminal rising contours. The speakers reduced, neglected, or modified lexical tonal information in favor of simplified and clarified intonation contours. The significance of the results is discussed in relation to tone acquisition in children and to a universal intuitive didactic competence in caretakers.

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