Lexical and Prosodic Cues in the Comprehension of Relative Certainty

Study used two experiments to examine the development of children's comprehension of the use of intonation and belief verbs to mark the relative certainty with which a speaker makes a statement. It is argued that children's understanding of prosody will be best revealed in contexts in whic...

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Published inJournal of child language Vol. 20; no. 1; p. 153
Main Author Moore, Chris
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 01.02.1993
Subjects
Age Factors
Child
Child Language
Child, Preschool
Cognition
Cues
Female
Humans
Intonation
Language Development
Language Research
Language Tests
Linguistics
Listening Comprehension
Male
Pragmatics
Verbal Behavior
Verbal Stimuli
Verbs
Vocabulary
Young Children
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ISSN0305-0009
DOI10.1017/S030500090000917X

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Summary:Study used two experiments to examine the development of children's comprehension of the use of intonation and belief verbs to mark the relative certainty with which a speaker makes a statement. It is argued that children's understanding of prosody will be best revealed in contexts in which they are required to respond to the pragmatic function of verbal stimuli. (KM)
ISSN:0305-0009
DOI:10.1017/S030500090000917X