Article published in:
Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields
Edited by Meghan E. Armstrong, Nicholas Henriksen and Maria del Mar Vanrell
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 6] 2016
► pp. 295–324

Early Prosodic Development

Emerging intonation and phrasing in European Portuguese

| Universidade de Lisboa
| Universidade de Lisboa
| Universidade de Lisboa
| Universidade de Lisboa
Studies of emerging prosody from the word to the phrase, integrating various sources of evidence, are scarce, and our understanding of the pathways of prosodic development is still very limited. An investigation of emerging intonation and prosodic phrasing was undertaken on the basis of production data on intonation and duration patterns from the speech of two European Portuguese children between 1;00 and 2;04. The results show that both the development of intonation and phrasing were found to precede the onset of combinatorial speech, and to coincide in time with critical points in lexical development. Prosodic phrasing evolved in three steps, by the unfolding of key prosodic levels. Implications of these results are discussed in relation to early prosodic development across languages.
Keywords: early production, intonation, prosodic development, prosodic phrasing
Published online: 31 March 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.6.14fro
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