The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition
Edited by Pilar Prieto and Núria Esteve-Gibert
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 23] 2018. vi, 368 pp.
Núria Esteve-Gibert
List of John Benjamins publications for which Núria Esteve-Gibert plays a role.
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Subjects Language acquisition | Phonology | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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2018. Chapter 12. Early development of the prosody-meaning interface. The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition, Prieto, Pilar and Núria Esteve-Gibert (eds.), pp. 227–246
This chapter reviews evidence on how infants up to 18 months of age develop the ability to use prosody as a sign of the expression of pragmatic meanings, from both a comprehension and a production point of view. Developmental research reveals that pre-lexical infants use prosodic information not… read more | Chapter
2018. Chapter 1. Introduction: An overview of research on prosodic development. The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition, Prieto, Pilar and Núria Esteve-Gibert (eds.), pp. 1–14
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2018. Chapter 6. Set in time: Temporal coordination of prosody and gesture in the development of spoken language production. The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition, Prieto, Pilar and Núria Esteve-Gibert (eds.), pp. 103–124
The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the relationship between prosody, gesture, and spoken language production from a developmental perspective. The coordination of prosody and manual movements from theoretical, behavioral and neuroanatomical perspectives will be explored. We focus on how… read more | Chapter
2016. Prosodic and gestural features distinguish the intention of pointing gestures in child-directed communication. Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields, Armstrong, Meghan E., Nicholas Henriksen and Maria del Mar Vanrell (eds.), pp. 249–276
Previous literature had found that infants rely on the social-contextual information to understand the pragmatic meaning of a pointing gesture. Our study investigates the prosodic and gesture features accompanying a pointing gesture that infants may also use to infer its meaning. Nine… read more | Article