Chapter published in:
The Development of Prosody in First Language AcquisitionEdited by Pilar Prieto and Núria Esteve-Gibert
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 23] 2018
► pp. 247–270
Gradual development of focus prosody and affect prosody comprehension
A proposal for a holistic approach
Kiwako Ito | Ohio State University
Excellence in communication skills requires an ability to
appropriately represent the discourse structure including focus, as
well as good comprehension of speaker affect. Both focus and affect
are communicated in large part through prosody, so comprehension and
production of the accompanying prosody is essential. However, past
studies on focus prosody have been both theoretically and
methodologically separated from the research on affect prosody. (In
this chapter, I use the term ‘focus prosody’ to refer to prosodic
phenomena that are either produced or perceived as the cue to a
specific part of speech that conveys the focal content of a message.
This includes ‘narrow focus’, which is defined in terms of the
informational scope (e.g., answers to Wh-questions), and
‘contrastive focus’, which is a subtype of narrow focus that evokes
interpretational alternatives.) This chapter argues that the
suggested difference in the developmental trajectory (i.e., focus
prosody develops slower as compared to affect prosody) may be an
artifact of the perspective divergence, and points out that the
mastery of prosodic skills in both these domains must be necessarily
gradual – though they may not develop
hand-in-hand. A holistic approach that considers the interaction
between affect prosody and focus prosody is proposed as a future
direction of the research on prosodic development within and across
individuals.
Published online: 24 May 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.23.13ito
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.23.13ito
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