The Acquisition of Prosodic Marking of Narrow Focus in Central Swedish

Autor/inn/en	Romøren, Anna Sara H.; Chen, Aoju
Titel	The Acquisition of Prosodic Marking of Narrow Focus in Central Swedish
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 49 (2022) 2, S.213-238 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Chen, Aoju)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000920000847
Schlagwörter	Language Acquisition; Swedish; Intonation; Suprasegmentals; Preschool Children; Phonology; Sentence Structure; Task Analysis; Adults; Comparative Analysis; German; Contrastive Linguistics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Schwedisch; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Fonologie; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Aufgabenanalyse; Deutscher; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik
Abstract	We investigated how Central Swedish-speaking four to eleven-year-old children acquire the prosodic marking of narrow focus, compared to adult controls. Three measurements were analysed: placement of the prominence-marking high tone (prominence H), pitch range effects of the prominence H, and word duration. Subject-verb-object sentences were elicited in sentence-medial and sentence-final focus conditions via a semi-spontaneous elicitation task. The children largely performed in an adult-like manner already at four to five: they predominantly added prominence H to focal words and avoided this tone post-focally in both sentence-medial and sentence-final position. The placement or avoidance of prominence H had largely the same effects on pitch range for children and adults. Finally, the four to eight-year-olds also increased the duration of the focal word, similar to adults. Hence, Central Swedish-speaking children master the use of prosody for focus marking at an earlier age, compared to children acquiring a West Germanic language. (As Provided).
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