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Pre‐schoolers use head gestures rather than prosodic cues to highlight important information in speech
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In: ISSN: 1363-755X ; EISSN: 1467-7687 ; Developmental Science ; https://hal.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hal-03348546 ; Developmental Science, Wiley, 2021, ⟨10.1111/desc.13154⟩ (2021)
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International audience ; Previous evidence suggests that children's mastery of prosodic modulations to signal the informational status of discourse referents emerges quite late in development. In the present study, we investigate the children's use of head gestures as it compares to prosodic cues to signal a referent as being contrastive relative to a set of possible alternatives. A group of French-speaking pre-schoolers were audio-visually recorded while playing in a semi-spontaneous but controlled production task, to elicit target words in the context of broad focus, contrastive focus, or corrective focus utterances. We analysed the acoustic features of the target words (syllable duration and word-level pitch range), as well as the head gesture features accompanying these target words (head gesture type, alignment patterns with speech). We found that children's production of head gestures, but not their use of either syllable duration or word-level pitch range, was affected by focus condition. Children mostly aligned head gestures with relevant speech units, especially when the target word was in phrase-final position. Moreover, the presence of a head gesture was linked to greater syllable duration patterns in all focus conditions. Our results show that (a) 4- and 5-year-old French-speaking children use head gestures rather than prosodic cues to mark the informational status of discourse referents, (b) the use of head gestures may gradually entrain the production of adult-like prosodic features, and that (c) head gestures with no referential relation with speech may serve a linguistic structuring function in communication, at least during language development.
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[SCCO]Cognitive science; [SHS.PSY]Humanities and Social Sciences/Psychology
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URL: https://hal.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hal-03348546
https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13154
https://hal.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hal-03348546/document
https://hal.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hal-03348546/file/desc.13154.pdf
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Visual, audiovisual and audiovisual-tactile modes in the perception and production of non-native sounds by children
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The children’s use of tactile and visual information (vs. acoustic information) when learning non-native phonological contrasts
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Pre-schoolers use head gestures rather than prosodic cues to highlight important information in speech
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Alignment of head nods in French focus: an EMA study
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In: ISSP 2020 - 12th International Seminar on Speech Production ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03098761 ; ISSP 2020 - 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, Haskins Laboratories, Dec 2020, Providence (virtual), United States ; https://issp2020.yale.edu/ (2020)
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Empathy influences how listeners interpret intonation and meaning when words are ambiguous
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In: ISSN: 0090-502X ; Memory and Cognition ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03100846 ; Memory and Cognition, Springer Verlag, 2020, 48 (4), pp.566-580. ⟨10.3758/s13421-019-00990-w⟩ (2020)
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Apoyos que favorecen la comprensión del lenguaje en niños con Trastorno del Desarrollo del Lenguaje. Más allá de la literalidad de las palabras
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Pre-schoolers use head gestures rather than duration or pitch range to signal narrow focus in French
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In: ICPhS 2019 - 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02367780 ; ICPhS 2019 - 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Aug 2019, Melbourne, Australia ; https://www.icphs2019.org (2019)
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Children’s use of tactile input when acquiring non-native phonological contrasts ...
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L'ús de la gestualitat en el desenvolupament de la consciència morfològica dels aprenents de l'anglès com a llengua estrangera
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On French listeners’ ability to use stress during spoken word processing
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In: ISSN: 2044-5911 ; EISSN: 2044-592X ; Journal of Cognitive Psychology ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01724606 ; Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Taylor & Francis edition, 2018, 30 (2), pp.198 - 206. ⟨10.1080/20445911.2017.1394862⟩ (2018)
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