Intonational realisation of topic and focus by Dutch-acquiring 4- to 5-year-olds
This study examined how Dutch-acquiring 4- to 5-year-olds use different pitch accent types and deaccentuation to mark topic and focus at the sentence level and how they differ from adults. The topic and focus were non-contrastive and realised as full noun phrases. It was found that children realise topic and focus similarly frequently with H*L, whereas adults use H*L noticeably more frequently in focus than in topic in sentence-initial position and nearly only in focus in sentence-final position. Further, children frequently realise the topic with an accent, whereas adults mostly deaccent the... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | conferenceObject |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2007 |
Sprache: | unknown |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26646687 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-1712-E |