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1	Children's use of prosody and word order to indicate information status in English noun phrase conjuncts
	de Ruiter, Laura; Narasimhan, Bhuvana; Chen, Jidong; Lack, Jonah
	In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 3 (2018): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 40:1–9 ; 2473-8689 (2018)
	Abstract: Our study investigates the influence of information status on word order and prosody in children and adults. Using an elicited production task, we examine the ordering and intonation of noun phrases in phrasal conjuncts in 3-5-year-old and adult speakers of English. Findings show that English-speaking children are less likely to employ the "old-before-new" order than adults and are also not adult-like in using prosody to mark information status. Our study suggests that even though intonation and word order are linguistic devices that are acquired early, their use to mark information status is still developing at age four.
	Keyword: English; information structure; Language Acquisition; prosody; word order
	URL: https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v3i1.4331 http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/PLSA/article/view/4331
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2	Cutting and breaking events: a crosslinguistic perspective
	Majid, Asifa (Hrsg.); Bowerman, Melissa (Hrsg.); Narasimhan, Bhuvana. - Berlin [u.a.] : Mouton de Gruyter, 2007
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