The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition
Editors
Prosodic development is increasingly recognized as a fundamental stepping stone in first language acquisition. Prosodic sensitivity starts developing very early, with newborns becoming attuned to the prosodic properties of the ambient language, and it continues to develop during childhood until early adolescence. In the last decades, a flourishing literature has reported on the varied set of prosodic skills that children acquire and how they interact with other linguistic and cognitive skills. This book compiles a set of seventeen short review chapters from distinguished experts that have contributed significantly to our knowledge about how prosody develops in first language acquisition. The ultimate aim of the book is to offer a complete state of the art on prosodic development that allows the reader to grasp the literature from an interdisciplinary and critical perspective. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, speech therapy, and education.
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 23] 2018. vi, 368 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. Introduction: An overview of research on prosodic developmentPilar Prieto and Núria Esteve-Gibert | pp. 1–14
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Part 1. Early sensitivity to prosody
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Chapter 2. Early perception of phrasal prosody and its role in syntactic and lexical acquisitionAlex de Carvalho, Isabelle Dautriche, Séverine Millotte and Anne Christophe | pp. 17–35
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Chapter 3. Early sensitivity and acquisition of prosodic patterns at the lexical levelAnjali Bhatara, Natalie Boll-Avetisyan, Barbara Höhle and Thierry Nazzi | pp. 37–57
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Chapter 4. The role of prosody in early word learning: Behavioral evidenceJill C. Thorson | pp. 59–77
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Chapter 5. The role of prosody in early speech segmentation and word-referent mapping: Electrophysiological evidenceMaria Teixidó, Clément François, Laura Bosch and Claudia Männel | pp. 79–100
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Part 2. Learning to produce prosody
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Chapter 6. Set in time: Temporal coordination of prosody and gesture in the development of spoken language productionHeather Leavy Rusiewicz and Núria Esteve-Gibert | pp. 103–124
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Chapter 7. Speech rhythm in development: What is the child acquiring?Brechtje Post and Elinor Payne | pp. 125–143
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Chapter 8. Early development of intonation: Perception and productionSónia Frota and Joseph Butler | pp. 145–164
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Chapter 9. Prosodic phonology in acquisition: A focus on children’s early word productionsMargaret Kehoe | pp. 165–184
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Chapter 10. The development of prosodic structure: A usage-based approachMarilyn May Vihman | pp. 185–206
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Chapter 11. Understanding the development of prosodic words: The role of the lexiconKatherine Demuth | pp. 207–224
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Part 3. Moving to meaning: Prosody and pragmatic development
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Chapter 12. Early development of the prosody-meaning interfaceNúria Esteve-Gibert and Pilar Prieto | pp. 227–246
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Chapter 13. Gradual development of focus prosody and affect prosody comprehension: A proposal for a holistic approachKiwako Ito | pp. 247–270
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Chapter 14. Children’s development of internal state prosodyMeghan E. Armstrong and Iris Hübscher | pp. 271–293
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Chapter 15. Get the focus right across languages: Acquisition of prosodic focus-marking in productionAoju Chen | pp. 295–314
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Part 4. Prosody in bilingualism and in specific populations
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Chapter 16. Bilingual children’s prosodic developmentConxita Lleó | pp. 317–342
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Chapter 17. Prosodic development in atypical populationsSue Peppé | pp. 343–362
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Index | pp. 363–368
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BIC Subject: CFDC – Language acquisition
BISAC Subject: LAN009040 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics