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Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 2015

Formal, Functional, and Interactional Perspectives, 2012

1 L'un des aspects linguistiques les plus importants pour l'organisation générale d&#x2... more 1 L'un des aspects linguistiques les plus importants pour l'organisation générale d'un récit concerne les formes linguistiques utilisées pour lier les événements entre eux. Ainsi,«raconter un récit nécessite non seulement la construction d'un monologue étendu à ...

This study examined how Dutch-acquiring 4-to 5-year-olds use different pitch accent types and dea... more This study examined how Dutch-acquiring 4-to 5-year-olds use different pitch accent types and deaccentuation to mark topic and focus at the sentence level and how they differ from adults. The topic and focus were non-contrastive and realised as full noun phrases. It was found that children realise topic and focus similarly frequently with H*L, whereas adults use H*L noticeably more frequently in focus than in topic in sentence-initial position and nearly only in focus in sentence-final position. Further, children frequently realise the topic with an accent, whereas adults mostly deaccent the sentence-final topic and use H*L and H* to realise the sentence-initial topic because of rhythmic motivation. These results show that 4-and 5-year-olds have not acquired H*L as the typical focus accent and deaccentuation as the typical topic intonation yet. Possibly, frequent use of H*L in sentence-initial topic in adult Dutch has made it difficult to extract the functions of H*L and deaccentuation from the input.

The Linguistic Review, Jan 21, 2007

Page 1. Pitch accent type matters for online processing of information status: Evidence from natu... more Page 1. Pitch accent type matters for online processing of information status: Evidence from natural and synthetic speech ∗ AOJU CHEN, ELS DEN OS AND JAN PETER DE RUITER The Linguistic Review 24 (2007), 317–344 0167–6318/07/024-0317 ...

Page 1. Pitch accent type matters for online processing of information status: Evidence from natu... more Page 1. Pitch accent type matters for online processing of information status: Evidence from natural and synthetic speech ∗ AOJU CHEN, ELS DEN OS AND JAN PETER DE RUITER The Linguistic Review 24 (2007), 317–344 0167–6318/07/024-0317 ...

This study set out to investigate how accent placement is pragmatically governed in WH-questions.... more This study set out to investigate how accent placement is pragmatically governed in WH-questions. Central to this issue are questions such as whether the intonation of the WH-word depends on the information structure of the non-WH word part, whether topical constituents can be accented, and whether constituents in the non-WH word part can be non-topical and accented. Previous approaches, based either on carefully composed examples or on read speech, differ in their treatments of these questions and consequently make opposing claims on the intonation of WH-questions. We addressed these questions by examining a corpus of 90 naturally occurring WH-questions, selected from the Spoken Dutch Corpus. Results show that the intonation of the WH-word is related to the information structure of the non-WH word part. Further, topical constituents can get accented and the accents are not necessarily phonetically reduced. Additionally, certain adverbs, which have no topical relation to the presupp...

This study examined how Dutch-acquiring 4-to 5-year-olds use different pitch accent types and dea... more This study examined how Dutch-acquiring 4-to 5-year-olds use different pitch accent types and deaccentuation to mark topic and focus at the sentence level and how they differ from adults. The topic and focus were non-contrastive and realised as full noun phrases. It was found that children realise topic and focus similarly frequently with H*L, whereas adults use H*L noticeably more frequently in focus than in topic in sentence-initial position and nearly only in focus in sentence-final position. Further, children frequently realise the topic with an accent, whereas adults mostly deaccent the sentence-final topic and use H*L and H* to realise the sentence-initial topic because of rhythmic motivation. These results show that 4-and 5-year-olds have not acquired H*L as the typical focus accent and deaccentuation as the typical topic intonation yet. Possibly, frequent use of H*L in sentence-initial topic in adult Dutch has made it difficult to extract the functions of H*L and deaccentuat...

Page 1. Language-specificity in the perception of continuation intonation Aoju Chen Abstract This... more Page 1. Language-specificity in the perception of continuation intonation Aoju Chen Abstract This paper addressed the question of how British English, German and Dutch listeners differ in their perception of continuation intonation ...

Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 2015

Formal, Functional, and Interactional Perspectives, 2012

1 L'un des aspects linguistiques les plus importants pour l'organisation générale d&#x2... more 1 L'un des aspects linguistiques les plus importants pour l'organisation générale d'un récit concerne les formes linguistiques utilisées pour lier les événements entre eux. Ainsi,«raconter un récit nécessite non seulement la construction d'un monologue étendu à ...

This study examined how Dutch-acquiring 4-to 5-year-olds use different pitch accent types and dea... more This study examined how Dutch-acquiring 4-to 5-year-olds use different pitch accent types and deaccentuation to mark topic and focus at the sentence level and how they differ from adults. The topic and focus were non-contrastive and realised as full noun phrases. It was found that children realise topic and focus similarly frequently with H*L, whereas adults use H*L noticeably more frequently in focus than in topic in sentence-initial position and nearly only in focus in sentence-final position. Further, children frequently realise the topic with an accent, whereas adults mostly deaccent the sentence-final topic and use H*L and H* to realise the sentence-initial topic because of rhythmic motivation. These results show that 4-and 5-year-olds have not acquired H*L as the typical focus accent and deaccentuation as the typical topic intonation yet. Possibly, frequent use of H*L in sentence-initial topic in adult Dutch has made it difficult to extract the functions of H*L and deaccentuation from the input.

The Linguistic Review, Jan 21, 2007

Page 1. Pitch accent type matters for online processing of information status: Evidence from natu... more Page 1. Pitch accent type matters for online processing of information status: Evidence from natural and synthetic speech ∗ AOJU CHEN, ELS DEN OS AND JAN PETER DE RUITER The Linguistic Review 24 (2007), 317–344 0167–6318/07/024-0317 ...

Page 1. Pitch accent type matters for online processing of information status: Evidence from natu... more Page 1. Pitch accent type matters for online processing of information status: Evidence from natural and synthetic speech ∗ AOJU CHEN, ELS DEN OS AND JAN PETER DE RUITER The Linguistic Review 24 (2007), 317–344 0167–6318/07/024-0317 ...

This study set out to investigate how accent placement is pragmatically governed in WH-questions.... more This study set out to investigate how accent placement is pragmatically governed in WH-questions. Central to this issue are questions such as whether the intonation of the WH-word depends on the information structure of the non-WH word part, whether topical constituents can be accented, and whether constituents in the non-WH word part can be non-topical and accented. Previous approaches, based either on carefully composed examples or on read speech, differ in their treatments of these questions and consequently make opposing claims on the intonation of WH-questions. We addressed these questions by examining a corpus of 90 naturally occurring WH-questions, selected from the Spoken Dutch Corpus. Results show that the intonation of the WH-word is related to the information structure of the non-WH word part. Further, topical constituents can get accented and the accents are not necessarily phonetically reduced. Additionally, certain adverbs, which have no topical relation to the presupp...

This study examined how Dutch-acquiring 4-to 5-year-olds use different pitch accent types and dea... more This study examined how Dutch-acquiring 4-to 5-year-olds use different pitch accent types and deaccentuation to mark topic and focus at the sentence level and how they differ from adults. The topic and focus were non-contrastive and realised as full noun phrases. It was found that children realise topic and focus similarly frequently with H*L, whereas adults use H*L noticeably more frequently in focus than in topic in sentence-initial position and nearly only in focus in sentence-final position. Further, children frequently realise the topic with an accent, whereas adults mostly deaccent the sentence-final topic and use H*L and H* to realise the sentence-initial topic because of rhythmic motivation. These results show that 4-and 5-year-olds have not acquired H*L as the typical focus accent and deaccentuation as the typical topic intonation yet. Possibly, frequent use of H*L in sentence-initial topic in adult Dutch has made it difficult to extract the functions of H*L and deaccentuat...

Page 1. Language-specificity in the perception of continuation intonation Aoju Chen Abstract This... more Page 1. Language-specificity in the perception of continuation intonation Aoju Chen Abstract This paper addressed the question of how British English, German and Dutch listeners differ in their perception of continuation intonation ...

Proceedings of the 2n Conference on Gesture and Speech in Interaction, Sep 2011

Abstract Languages rely on many verbal and nonverbal sources for the expression of uncertainty, a... more Abstract Languages rely on many verbal and nonverbal sources for the expression of uncertainty, and these linguistic markers are used by hearers to detect degrees of uncertainty in natural communication. An important question is whether the perception of uncertainty is better chracterized by lexical marking, prosody or facial gestures.

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