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Publication details [#53155]

Tomasello, Michael and Susanne Grassmann. 2010. Prosodic stress on a word directs 24-month-olds’ attention to a contextually new referent. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (11) : 3098–3105.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | prosody | referent | stress | toddler

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

As 24-month-old children appear to look longer at referents of prosodically stressed words that are new to the context, this study argues that from an early age on, children comprehend at least one notable communicative function of prosodic stress.