It's a question? Infants attend differently to yes/no questions and declaratives

Söderström, Mélanie; Ko, Eon-Suk; Nevzorova, Uliana

doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2010.10.003

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“…Most studies of infants' perception of prosodic categories have used variants of the head-turn preference procedure (Mattock & Burnham, 2006, for lexical tone; Höhle et al, 2009 for stress), in some cases with visual and auditory presentation (Skoruppa et al, 2009(Skoruppa et al, , 2013, for stress), or some version of the visual fixation/habituation paradigm (Sato et al, 2009, for lexical pitch accent; Soderstrom et al, 2011Yeung et al, 2013, for lexical tone).…”

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Infants’ Perception of the Intonation of Broad and Narrow Focus

Butler

Vigário

Frota

2015

Language Learning and Development

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Infants perceive intonation contrasts early in development, in contrast with lexical stress but similarly to lexical pitch accent. Previous studies have mostly focused on pitch height/direction contrasts, however, languages use a variety of pitch features to signal meaning, including differences in pitch timing. In this study, we investigate infants' perception of the prosodic contrast that cues the difference between all-new information (broad focus) and the highlighting of a particular word (narrow/contrastive focus) in European Portuguese (EP), and which has been described as having pitch timing as its key feature. Using a modified version of the visual habituation paradigm, EP learning infants discriminated this contrast at 12 months, but not at 7 months, deviating from previous findings of a precocious ability to perceive pitch distinctions. These results suggest different developmental trajectories of the perception of different prosodic contrasts, underlining the importance of the nature of the cues signalling a given contrast in a given language.(Word count -154)

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“…Soderstrom, Ko and Nevzorova (2011) used multiword, uninverted yes-no question and statement sentences, thus neutralizing the word order cue to questions in English.…”

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Infants’ Perception of the Intonation of Broad and Narrow Focus

Butler

Vigário

Frota

2015

Language Learning and Development

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“…Así, aunque en las distintas lenguas del mun do la distinción entre enunciados declarativos e interrogativos puede estar marcada por modificaciones morfosintácticas y de entonación, no estar marcada por la entonación, o estar marcada solo por la entonación (Frota, Butler & Vigário, 2013), se cree que existe una tendencia universal a usar F0(s) altos y/o elevaciones del F0 para marcar interrogaciones (sobre todo en el caso de las preguntas sin énfasis que se responden con sí o no), y F0(s) bajos y/o caídas del F0 para marcar declaraciones (Ohala, 1984;Soderstrom, Ko & Nevzorova, 2011;Yang & Liang, 2012 2 ). De cualquier manera, existen diversos tipos de interrogaciones.…”

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“…Sin embargo, en todos los participantes se evidenció una preferencia hacia las I en la fase de familiarización, lo cual implica que atendieron a las características prosódicas / acústicas que diferenciaban los dos tipos de entonación. Estiman en consecuencia los autores del trabajo que los bebés tienen las habilidades perceptuales y atencionales nece sarias para empezar a formar las categorías de declaración-interrogación con anterioridad al conocimiento morfosintáctico, y que existe un sesgo categórico de aparición temprana hacia las preguntas o hacia características acús ticas como la entonación en aumento (Soderstrom et al, 2011).…”

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“…Se puso a prueba la capacidad de los bebés para diferenciar entre oraciones declarativas (D) e interrogativas (I), en inglés, que no solo diferían en sus contornos de entonación sino que además se diferenciaban en cuanto al auxiliar y a la inversión sintáctica de las I, y en cuanto a las palabras que las constituían (es decir, las oraciones D e I no compartían las mismas palabras, como en el estudio de Soderstrom et al, 2011). Todas las oraciones fueron proferidas por una mujer en el registro de habla dirigida al bebé.…”

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El estudio psicológico comparado de la percepción de los contornos de entonación declarativo e interrogativo

Birchenall¹

2014

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RESUMENSi bien existen numerosas investigaciones sobre la percepción del lenguaje en recién nacidos, la percepción de la entonación en adultos y la Psicología Comparada del lenguaje, son muy escasos los estudios en cuanto a la percepción de los contornos de entonación declarativo e interrogativo con bebés, y los estudios sobre este mismo tema en modelos animales son al parecer inexistentes. En este artículo se plantean los fundamentos del estudio comparado de la percepción de dichos contornos de entonación en bebés y en animales. En primer término se discute acerca de la composición del lenguaje y el enfoque de estudio psicolingüístico comparado. A continuación se tratan los temas de la isocronía y de los contornos de entonación declarativo e interrogativo, argumentando que en ambos casos existe un alto grado de universalidad. Finalmente se analizan los alcances del tipo de estudio propuesto, indicando su viabilidad y pertinencia.Palabras clave: Percepción del habla; Entonación declarativa e interrogativa; Psicología Comparada; Universales lingüísticos; Modelos anima les. ABSTRACTOne of today's most influential theories of language development and acquisition assumes that the human faculty of language is made-up of three components: syntax, phonology, and seman tics. Of these components, the syntactic one may be exclusive of humans, while some specific as pects of the semantic and phonological ones may be not. One implication of this division of the language faculty is that aspects of the semantic and phonological systems could also be found in non-human animals, with their function not necessarily being related to communication. Even though not all the scientific community accepts such expla na tion of the components of the language faculty, diverse academic groups that do so, have been do ing research with humans, non-human primates, rodents, birds, and even with cats, for the last 25 years or so. Usually, the purpose of this type of stud ies has been to determine what human capac ities related to speech have emerged from different precursor systems that were already present in ancestral species, and would have been inherited by men, which components of language are specif ically human, which are specifically linguis tic, and which ones could be domain-general mecha nisms

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Do Questions Get Infants Talking? Infant Vocal Responses to Questions and Declaratives in Maternal Speech

Reimchen

Söderström

2016

Infant and Child Development

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Maternal questions play a crucial role in early language acquisition by virtue of their special grammatical, prosodic and lexical forms, and their abundance in the input. Infants are able to discriminate questions from other sentence types and produce rising intonations in their own requests. This study examined whether caregiver questions were related to the quantity of infant vocalizations. Thirty‐six infants aged 10 and 14 months participated in a laboratory play session with their mothers. In separate blocks, mothers were instructed to ask questions and to refrain from asking questions. Both block‐level and utterance‐level analyses found no evidence that maternal questions affected the amount of infant‐response vocalizations. Mothers of 14‐month‐olds (but not 10‐month‐olds) tended to repeat questions. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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It's a question? Infants attend differently to yes/no questions and declaratives

Cited by 39 publications

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Infants’ Perception of the Intonation of Broad and Narrow Focus

Infants’ Perception of the Intonation of Broad and Narrow Focus

El estudio psicológico comparado de la percepción de los contornos de entonación declarativo e interrogativo

Do Questions Get Infants Talking? Infant Vocal Responses to Questions and Declaratives in Maternal Speech

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