Word prosody in early child Cataln, Spanish and English

Astruc, Lluisa; Payne, Elinor; Post, Brechtje; Prieto, Pilar and Vanrell, Maria del Mar (2010). Word prosody in early child Cataln, Spanish and English. In: Speech Prosody 2010, 11-14 May 2010, Chicago.

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Abstract

The goal of this paper is to examine the acquisition of the metrical patterns of the target language in early child vs. adult speech. There is some preliminary evidence for the existence of crosslinguistic and developmental differences. We recorded 36 children; 12 English, 12 Catalan, and 12 Spanish, aged 2, 4 and 6 and their mothers to compare the acquisition of increasingly complex prosodic forms (S, WS, SW, WSW, SWW, WWS, SWSW) in the children's speech to the adult target provided by their mothers, both elicited with a controlled naming task. We quantified the prosodic patterns produced and also the omissions of weakly stressed syllables (truncation) as has been shown in the literature that this correlates with prosodic development but may also differ crosslinguistically.

Item Type:	Conference Item
Copyright Holders:	2010 The Authors
Academic Unit/Department:	Education and Language Studies > Languages
Interdisciplinary Research Centre:	Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET)
Item ID:	21150
Depositing User:	Julie May
Date Deposited:	12 Apr 2010 15:27
Last Modified:	07 Mar 2013 02:44
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/21150

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