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
Articles
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 | Chapter
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
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 | Chapter
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 | Chapter
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
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 | Article
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