The acquisition of contrastive focus during online sentence-comprehension by children learning mandarin Chinese.
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DOI: 10.1037/dev0001498
Abstract: Contrastive focus, conveyed by prosodic cues, marks important information. Studies have shown that 6-year-olds learning English and Japanese can use contrastive focus during online sentence comprehension: focus used in a contrastive context facilitates the identification… read more here.
Keywords: form; acquisition contrastive; contrastive focus; year olds ... See more keywords