Discovering new words in the flow of speech: the impact of prosody in the lexical acquisition

Authors

  • Maria Cristina Name UFJF

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v16i30.32924

Keywords:

lexical acquisition, prosody, adjectives, phonological bootstrapping, DP

Abstract

We discuss the role of prosodic information on lexical acquisition by Brazilian children, focusing on nouns and adjectives. We assume that fluent speech is organized in prosodic constituents hierarchically arranged, partially sensitive to the syntactic structure. Based on experimental results, we claim that children and adults use prosodic cues to identify the adjective order in a DP ((Experiment 1), recognize non-words as new adjectives (Experiment 2) and relate the prosodic emphasis of the pronominal adjective to its subjective value (Experiment 3). We discuss these results in light of language acquisition models.

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Author Biography

Maria Cristina Name, UFJF

Graduada em Letras pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Doutora em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ). É professora da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), atuando no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística e no Departamento de Letras Clássicas e Vernáculas. Tem experiência na área de Linguística, com ênfase em Psicolinguística, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: aquisição da linguagem, aquisição lexical, psicolinguística, categorias lexicais e funcionais. Desenvolveu estágio pós-doutoral no Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Langage, na Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM, Montreal, Canadá), com Rushen Shi (2009-2010). Atualmente, é coordenadora do GT de Psicolinguística da ANPOLL para o biênio 2010-2012, e coordenadora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística (UFJF) desde agosto/2010.

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Published

2011-06-30

How to Cite

Name, M. C. (2011). Discovering new words in the flow of speech: the impact of prosody in the lexical acquisition. Gragoatá, 16(30). https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v16i30.32924

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 30 (2011): Language Acquisition

Section

Language Articles

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