FUNCTIONAL INTONATION IN THE PRELINGUISTIC AND EARLY LINGUISTIC CHILD (DEVELOPMENTAL, FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY CONTOUR).
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Title
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FUNCTIONAL INTONATION IN THE PRELINGUISTIC AND EARLY LINGUISTIC CHILD (DEVELOPMENTAL, FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY CONTOUR).
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Identifier
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AAI8629688
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identifier
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8629688
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Creator
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FLAX, JUDY FIVIS.
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Contributor
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Margaret Lahey
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Date
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1986
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Language, Linguistics
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between specific elements of the intonation contour and the contextual language functions of infant vocalizations. In addition, the study looked at continuity in one of the elements over time.;Three children were audio and video taped at three different times; first, before conventional words were used; second when the first 10 words were reported by the mother; and third, when the first after 50 words were reported by the mother. All video recordings were transcribed and child vocalizations were categorized by contextual function. Audio recordings of the vocalizations were acoustically analyzed for final contour direction, mean fundamental frequency, peak, range, and duration.;Those contextual function categories which were common to all children were significantly differentiated by final contour direction, yet there was no effect for time or child. All children used their highest proportion of rises for requests and highest proportions of non-rises for general comments. Analyses of other productive categories for individual children also revealed some consistent patterns.;Mean fundamental frequency, peak and range were correlated with each other and all revealed a main effect for contextual function. Those categories associated with high affect such as "protests" and "calling attention to something", tended to have higher means, peaks, and ranges in contrast to those with less emotional force (eg. responses to questions and personal comments).;Duration was also statistically differentiated by contextual function. However, there was also an interaction of contextual function, time, and child. Individual differences in the amount of jargon, single words and two word utterances used during this period appear to account for these interactions.;The results indicate that there are some early consistent relationships between intonation and certain language functions. Some of these patterns begin prelinguistically and continue through at least the early linguistic period providing evidence for continuity in the association of intonation and language functions.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Speech & Hearing
