28.2076, Books: Hunting highs and lows: The acquisition of prosodic focus marking in Swedish and Dutch: Hexeberg Romøren
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Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 15:51:06
From: Martine Paulissen [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Hunting highs and lows: The acquisition of prosodic focus marking in Swedish and Dutch: Hexeberg Romøren
Title: Hunting highs and lows: The acquisition of prosodic focus marking
in Swedish and Dutch
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/hunting-highs-and-lows-the-acquisition-of-prosodic-focus-marking-in-swedish-and-dutch
Author: Anna Sara Hexeberg Romøren
Paperback: ISBN: 9789460932083 Pages: 229 Price: U.K. £ 32.00
Abstract:
During the course of a conversation, speakers continuously shape their
utterances in accordance with the knowledge state of the listeners. One way to
do this is by prosodically highlighting important information (or focus). In
order to master this linguistic skill, children not only need to assess the
knowledge state of their listeners, they also need to know how such important
information is to be prosodically marked in their language. The goal of this
thesis is to determine whether and how the prosodic system a child is
acquiring affects the acquisition of prosodic focus marking. The test cases
are Dutch and (Central) Swedish. Whereas Swedish is a tonal language, where
pitch is lexically distinctive, Dutch is not. In both languages pitch is used
for marking focus, but in different ways; speakers of Dutch mark focus by
means of a pitch accent, speakers of Swedish mark focus by means of a
prominence-lending high tone (prominence H). Our initial hypothesis was that
children learning a tonal language would be more sensitive to pitch contrasts
than children learning a non-tonal language, possibly leading to an earlier
mastery of prosodic focus marking in Swedish than in Dutch. Our main finding
is that the Swedish-speaking children indeed reach adult proficiency in the
use of prominence H for focus earlier than Dutch-speaking children reach adult
proficiency in the use of accentuation for the same purpose. Even if tonal
sensitivity may explain these results, data from adult Dutch and Swedish
suggest that other factors may also be in play, such as the amount of tonal
variation in the system, as well as the reliability of the mapping between
certain prosodic categories and focus.
Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
Phonology
Pragmatics
Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
Swedish (swe)
Written In: English (eng)
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