The perception and production of emotional and linguistic (focus) prosody were compared in
children with cochlear implants (CI) and normally hearing (NH) peers. Thirteen CI and …

Studies of children's use of intonation in reference are few in number but are diverse in
terms of theoretical frameworks and intonational parameters. In the current review, I present …

In the current study we investigate whether 2-and 3-year-old German children use intonation
productively to mark the informational status of referents. Using a story-telling task, we …

This chapter serves as an introduction to The Acquisition of Reference. The volume brings
together influential recent research on the study of children's comprehension and production …

The use of word order and intonation to mark focus in child speech has received some
attention. However, past work usually examined each device separately or only compared …

Using a semi-spontaneous speech corpus, we present evidence from computational
modelling of tonal productions from Mandarin-speaking children (4-to 11-years old) and …

Two experiments tested how faithfully German children aged 4; 5 to 5; 6 reproduce
ditransitive sentences that are unmarked or marked with respect to word order and focus …

We investigated how Central Swedish-speaking four to eleven-year-old children acquire the
prosodic marking of narrow focus, compared to adult controls. Three measurements were …

Despite several studies demonstrating sophisticated prosodic discrimination in infant
perception (see [1] for a review), research on the use of prosody for encoding information …

This study investigates how Mandarin Chinese speaking children and adults use prosody to
mark focus in spontaneous speech. SVO sentences were elicited from 4-and 8-year-olds …