Two studies investigated whether speaking mode influences the way German speakers
mark the information status of discourse referents in nuclear position. In Study 1, speakers …

Using a language game to elicit short sentences in various information structural conditions,
we found that Finnish 4-to 5-year-olds already exhibit a characteristic interaction between …

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability to discriminate yes/no
questions from statements in three groups of children: bilateral cochlear implant (CI) users …

This paper presents an acoustic description of prosodic focus marking in speech of children
with phonological disorder to identify which phonetic cues can be seen as markers of …

The present study examines narrative competence and its relationships with syntactic and
prosodic skills in preschool children. The narrative skills of 30 typically developing Italian …

Our motivation was to examine how toddler (2; 6) and adult speakers of American English
prosodically realize information status categories. The aims were three-fold: 1) to analyze …

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

It is well known that mental state verbs are difficult to acquire, but little is known about the
acquisition of mental state language encoded through intonation. Puerto Rican Spanish …

Developmental studies have claimed that 5-to 7-year-old children use prosodic prominence
to mark the status of referential expressions in discourse, where new and accessible …

While previous research on language development has highlighted the facilitating role of
gesture (mainly deictic gesture) in children's early access to meaning, little is known about …