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Title: Children's Identification of Questions from Rising Terminal Pitch
Language: English
Authors: Saindon, Mathieu R., Trehub, Sandra E., Schellenberg, E. Glenn
Source: Journal of Child Language. Sep 2016 43(5):1174-1191.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 18
Publication Date: 2016
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Intonation, Pragmatics, Language Acquisition, Intention, Children, Performance, Adults, Cues, Oral Language, Acoustics, Auditory Perception, Identification
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000915000458
ISSN: 0305-0009
Abstract: Young children are slow to master conventional intonation patterns in their "yes/no" questions, which may stem from imperfect understanding of the links between terminal pitch contours and pragmatic intentions. In Experiment 1, five to ten-year-old children and adults were required to judge utterances as questions or statements on the basis of intonation alone. Children eight years of age or younger performed above chance levels but less accurately than adult listeners. To ascertain whether the verbal content of utterances interfered with young children's attention to the relevant acoustic cues, low-pass filtered versions of the same utterances were presented to children and adults in Experiment 2. Low-pass filtering reduced performance comparably for all age groups, perhaps because such filtering reduced the salience of critical pitch cues. Young children's difficulty in differentiating declarative questions from statements is not attributable to basic perceptual difficulties but rather to absent or unstable intonation categories.
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