Can Prosody Encode Recursive Embedding? Children's Realizations of Complex NPs in Japanese

Autor/inn/en	Hirayama, Manami; Colantoni, Laura; Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa
Titel	Can Prosody Encode Recursive Embedding? Children's Realizations of Complex NPs in Japanese
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 48 (2021) 3, S.429-453 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000920000367
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Japanese; Suprasegmentals; Cognitive Processes; Nouns; Phrase Structure; Young Children; Adults; Syntax + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Japaner; Japanisch; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Phrasenstruktur; Frühe Kindheit
Abstract	Recursive NPs are difficult to produce and late to emerge. We compare prosodic and syntactic abilities in Japanese-speaking five- and six-year-olds (n = 28) and adults (n = 10). It is reported that syntactic structure in Japanese is prosodically marked via downstep and metrical boost. Results of an elicited imitation task suggested that children had acquired the lexical prosody (contrast between accented and unaccented words), a pre-requisite for downstep realization. While downstep, the prosodic phrasing involved in the complex NPs in this study, was established, children showed interspeaker variation with the metrical boost, a feature that distinguishes recursively embedded NPs from non-recursive NPs. However, variability was also found in adults, indicating that, in contrast to previous results, prosodic encoding of syntax is generally unreliable in adult speech. Finally, the magnitude of metrical boost was not correlated to children's ability to produce recursive possessives, suggesting that prosody does not help bootstrap Japanese children's recursive phrases. (As Provided).
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