Table of contents
Chapter 1.Introduction: An overview of research on prosodic development
Part 1Early sensitivity to prosody
Chapter 2.Early perception of phrasal prosody and its role in syntactic and lexical
acquisition
Chapter 3.Early sensitivity and acquisition of prosodic patterns at the lexical
level
Chapter 4.The role of prosody in early word learning: Behavioral evidence
Chapter 5.The role of prosody in early speech segmentation and word-referent
mapping: Electrophysiological evidence
Part 2Learning to produce prosody
Chapter 6.Set in time: Temporal coordination of prosody and gesture in the
development of spoken language production
Chapter 7.Speech rhythm in development: What is the child acquiring?
Chapter 8.Early development of intonation: Perception and production
Chapter 9.Prosodic phonology in acquisition
Chapter 10.The development of prosodic structure: A usage-based approach
Chapter 11.Understanding the development of prosodic words: The role of the
lexicon
Part 3Moving to meaning: Prosody and pragmatic development
Chapter 12.Early development of the prosody-meaning interface
Chapter 13.Gradual development of focus prosody and affect prosody
comprehension: A proposal for a holistic approach
Chapter 14.Children’s development of internal state prosody
Chapter 15.Get the focus right across languages: Acquisition of prosodic
focus-marking in production
Part 4Prosody in bilingualism and in specific populations
Chapter 16.Bilingual children’s prosodic development
Chapter 17.Prosodic development in atypical populations
Index
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