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Prieto, Pilar and Núria Esteve-Gibert, eds. 2018. The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition. (Trends in Language Acquisition Research 23). John Benjamins. vi, 368 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English

Annotation

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 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.