Prosodic and pragmatic abilities develop in parallel over the preschool years and beyond.
While tests that measure prosodic skills in children do exist at present, there exists no test …

While it is well known that prosodic features are central in the conveyance of pragmatic
meaning across languages, developmental research has assessed a narrow set of …

We describe the European Portuguese version of a test of prosodic abilities originally
developed for English: the Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech-Communication (Peppé …

Prosody includes suprasegmental components of speech, such as intonation and rate,
which add meaning beyond the words being spoken. Sensitivity to pragmatic prosody could …

Pragmatics lies at the point where language meets the social world and encompasses both
the linguistic and the social dimensions of communication. However, the relationship …

While prosody has been shown to act as a syntactic bootstrapper in early language
acquisition, little is known about the role that prosody plays in the later development of a …

Purpose This study was aimed at determining the role of prosody and situational context in
children's understanding of expressive utterances. Which one of these 2 cues will help …

The development of prosody covers a long age period, with some functions not well-
mastered till adolescence. Moreover, languages show different prosodic developmental …

This study tested American preschoolers' ability to use phrasal prosody to constrain their
syntactic analysis of locally ambiguous sentences containing noun/verb homophones …

Gesture and prosody are considered to be important precursors in early language
development. In the present study, we ask whether those cues play a similar role later in …