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. 295–314
Get the focus right across languages
Acquisition of prosodic focus-marking in production
Aoju Chen | Utrecht University
Languages differ in both the use of prosody in focus marking and
prosodic systems. In the light of recent studies of acquisition of
prosodic focus marking in typologically different languages, we
argue that typological differences have direct influences on
acquisition of prosodic focus marking. More specifically,
differences in reliance on phonetic uses of prosody and transparency
of how prosody is used phonologically to encode focus can lead to
cross-linguistic differences in rate of acquisition. Differences in
whether the prosodic means involved are also used for lexical
purposes and in interface between prosody and word order can trigger
cross-linguistic differences in route of acquisition.
Published online: 24 May 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.23.15che
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.23.15che
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