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Acoustic cues to coda stop voicing contrasts in Australian English-speaking children
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Temporal cues to onset voicing contrasts in Australian English-speaking children
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[In Press] The acquisition of acoustic cues to onset and coda voicing contrasts by preschoolers with hearing loss
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AusKidTalk : an auditory-visual corpus of 3- to 12-year-old Australian children's speech
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Maternal Depression Affects Infants’ Lexical Processing Abilities in the Second Year of Life
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In: Brain Sci (2020)
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Maternal depression affects infants' lexical processing abilities in the second year of life
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Visual speech cues speed processing and reduce effort for children listening in quiet and noise
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Markedness and the Development of Prosodic Structure
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In: North East Linguistics Society (2020)
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Acquisition of Mandarin tonal processes (Tang et al., 2019) ...
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Hypo-Articulation of the Four-Way Voicing Contrast in Nepali Infant-Directed Speech ...
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Hypo-Articulation of the Four-Way Voicing Contrast in Nepali Infant-Directed Speech ...
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Visual speech cues improve children's processing speed in both quiet and noise
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The narrative past inflection in Sesotho child and child-directed speech
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This study investigates a low-frequency verbal inflection called the “narrative past” in child and child-directed speech in the Bantu language Sesotho. Since the function of the Sesotho narrative past is not well-described, this study aimed to illuminate both function and acquisition trends in the Demuth Sesotho Corpus (Demuth, 1992). The narrative past form has been assumed to be under-specified for tense, comparable in function to the better-known Swahili -ka- inflection. The Swahili form, in turn, has been said to function in “clause chains” that are functionally and structurally similar to such chains in Papuan and other languages. We expected that, if the Sesotho narrative past is indeed functionally similar to Swahili -ka-, its distribution in child-directed speech and acquisition by children may pattern similarly to tense-less verb forms in non-Bantu clause chaining languages such as the Papuan language Nungon, where such verb forms can comprise over 20% of all verb tokens in child-directed and child speech at age 3;3. This study thus examined the conversational interactions of four children acquiring Sesotho in a village setting, aged 2;1–4;7. All 492 tokens of the narrative past form were coded for syntactic and discourse categories. Results show that the Sesotho narrative past generally occurs in much “looser” discourse chains than the clause chains of languages like Nungon; for Sesotho, other turns or elements can intervene between narrative past-framed mentions of previously-introduced topics. Further, the Sesotho narrative past has very low frequency in both child and child-directed speech, representing <3% of all verb tokens for both registers. There is possible evidence that one of the target children uses the Sesotho narrative past in increasing proportions as his linguistic sophistication increases, but there is no significant corresponding proportional increase in child-directed speech. Thus, in function and distribution, in both child-directed and child speech, the Sesotho narrative past form differs greatly from tense-less forms in more canonical clause chaining languages.
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200408 - Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar; 200499 - Linguistics not elsewhere classified; Bantu languages; children; Lexicon; Phonology; Semantics); Sotho language; speech
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URL: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:56439 https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00069
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Audiovisual benefits for speech processing speed among children with hearing loss
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Durational cues to place and voicing contrasts in Australian English word-initial stops
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The Acquisition of Sesotho Double Object Constructions
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In: IULC Working Papers; Vol 1 No 2 (2001): Explorations in African Linguistics ; 1524-2110 (2018)
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Listener characteristics modulate the semantic processing of native vs. foreign-accented speech
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