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Quam, Carolyn.

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Children's Sensitivity to Pitch Variation in Language.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Children's Sensitivity to Pitch Variation in Language./
Author:	Quam, Carolyn.
Description:	218 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-05, Section: B, page: 3111.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-05B.
Subject:	Cognitive psychology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3447524
ISBN:	9781124521473

Children's Sensitivity to Pitch Variation in Language.
Quam, Carolyn.

Children's Sensitivity to Pitch Variation in Language. - 218 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-05, Section: B, page: 3111.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2010.

Children acquire consonant and vowel categories by 12 months, but take much longer to learn to interpret perceptible variation. This dissertation considers children's interpretation of pitch variation. Pitch operates, often simultaneously, at different levels of linguistic structure. English-learning children must disregard pitch at the lexical level---since English is not a tone language---while still attending to pitch for its other functions. Chapters 1 and 5 outline the learning problem and suggest ways children might solve it. Chapter 2 demonstrates that 2.5-year-olds know pitch cannot differentiate words in English. Chapter 3 finds that not until age 4--5 do children correctly interpret pitch cues to emotions. Chapter 4 demonstrates some sensitivity between 2.5 and 5 years to the pitch cue to lexical stress, but continuing difficulties at the older ages. These findings suggest a late trajectory for interpretation of prosodic variation; throughout, I propose explanations for this protracted time-course.

ISBN: 9781124521473Subjects--Topical Terms:

523881
Cognitive psychology.

Children's Sensitivity to Pitch Variation in Language.
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