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- Discuss the role of Prosody in language acquisition from early sound percep. to semantic + syntactic development (1650)
- What is prosody?
- Can allow discrimination between languages, speakers, phrases, words etc.
- Can also link to sentence structure, an absence of vowels in a word also means the absence of a familiar syllabic pattern
- Familiarity allows for discrimination
- Juczyk paper
- Shukla Paper
- Early sound perception
- Babies seem to be born with lang. specific skills and a sensitivity to syllabic structure
- Mehler (1980s); Native language discrimination tasks using HAS
- In utero learning
- In utero child can learn prosodic generalities of maternal language and voice
- DeCasper et al; HAS sucking fro prosodic characteristics heard in utero (story)
- As well as post-natal response to pre-natal experience, fetal heart rate studies show similar effects
- Speech segmentation
- Statistical regularities
- Prosodic variables help to seperate alongside this
- An interaction between the two
- Shukla (2007)
- An interaction between the two
- Saffran, Aslin & Newport (1996); speech streaming study, did an 'auditory stream' of a pseudo-language, infants during testing could discriminate 'words' from 'non-words' using preferential looking
- How children perceive sound, as an 'auditory stream'
- Prosodic variables help to seperate alongside this
- Statistical regularities
- Babies seem to be born with lang. specific skills and a sensitivity to syllabic structure
- Semantic development
- Hebbian learning
- Mapping meanings onto words by using environmental regularities
- Prosodic variables help to seperate alongside this
- An interaction between the two
- Shukla (2007)
- An interaction between the two
- Prosodic variables help to seperate alongside this
- Mapping meanings onto words by using environmental regularities
- Hebbian learning
- Syntactic Development
- Motherese
- Characteristics
- Slower and exaggerated intonation
- Helps to group words into meaningful clusters and direct infant attention
- Shorter mean-length-utterances (MLUs)
- Single-clauses
- Concrete
- Repetition
- Novel word found at the end
- Slower and exaggerated intonation
- Research supporting its role in syntactic development with regards to prosody
- Chen Yu paper
- Characteristics
- Categorical perception
- Discriminating boundaries from a continuum of stimuli
- Auditory continuum of speech, prosody to discriminate
- Phoneme boundaries
- Discriminating boundaries from a continuum of stimuli
- Motherese
- What is prosody?
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