Prosodic cues to syntatic structures in speech production

<p>Children’s initial syntactic acquisition tasks include finding clausal and phrasal units from continuous speech stream and assigning words to grammatical categories. This study inquires if prosodic cues exist in adult speech and mark syntactic units. Participants were Quebec-French speakers...

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Main Authors: Sarah Massicotte-Laforge, Andréane Melaçon, Rushen Shi
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2015-08-01
Series:Revista Linguística
Online Access:https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rl/article/view/4623