Acquiring complex focus marking: Finnish four- to five-year-olds use prosody and word order in interaction

Using a language game to elicit short sentences in various information structural conditions, we found that Finnish four- to five-year-olds already exhibit a characteristic interaction between prosody and word order in marking information structure. Providing insights into the acquisition of this co...

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Main Authors: Anja Arnhold, Aoju Chen, Juhani Järvikivi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01886/full

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