Prosodic Patterns in Hebrew Child-Directed Speech

Autor/inn/en	Segal, Osnat; Nir-Sagiv, Bracha; Kishon-Rabin, Liat; Ravid, Dorit
Titel	Prosodic Patterns in Hebrew Child-Directed Speech
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 36 (2009) 3, S.629-656 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S030500090800915X
Schlagwörter	Semitic Languages; Suprasegmentals; Nouns; Language Patterns; Longitudinal Studies; Language Rhythm; Intonation; Child Language; Phonology; Verbs; Speech Communication + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arabisch; Hebräisch; Sprachmodell; Sprachstruktur; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Sprachrhythmus; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Fonologie
Abstract	The study examines prosodic characteristics of Hebrew speech directed to children between 0 ; 9-3 ; 0 years, based on longitudinal samples of 228,946 tokens (8,075 types). The distribution of prosodic patterns--the number of syllables and stress patterns--is analyzed across three lexical categories, distinguishing not only between open- and closed-class items, but also between these two categories and a third, innovative, class, referred to as between-class items. Results indicate that Hebrew CDS consists mainly of mono- and bisyllabic words, with differences between lexical categories; and that the most common stress pattern is word-final, with parallel distributions found for all categories. Additional analyses showed that verbs take word-final stress, but nouns are both trochaic and iambic. Finally, a developmental analysis indicates a significant increase in the number of iambic words in CDS. These findings have clear implications regarding the use of prosody for word segmentation and assignment of lexical class in infancy. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10