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Title:
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The Acquisition of multimodal cues to disbelief
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Author:
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Armstrong, Meghan Elizabeth; Esteve Gibert, Núria; Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-
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Abstract:
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Comunicació presentada a: Speech Prosody 2014, celebrada del 20 al 23 de maig de 2014 a Dublin, Irlanda. |
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Abstract:
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In this study, we examine how 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old Catalanacquiring children are able to make use of audio (intonational) and visual (facial gesture) modalities in the comprehension of speaker disbelief, as well as the role of the child’s developing Theory of Mind. Our results suggest that in this case, facial gesture provides children with scaffolding for linguistic meaning, and that explicit belief-reasoning also helps children to infer speaker disbelief. We discuss the implications of these findings for the study of intonational development. |
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Abstract:
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The research was funded by a Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation grant (FFI2012-31995 “Gestures, prosody and linguistic structure”), by a Generalitat de Catalunya grant (2009SGR-701) to the Grup d’Estudis de Prosòdia, and by the the grant RECERCAIXA 2012 for the project “Els precursors del llenguatge. |
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Subject(s):
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-Intonational development
-Multimodal comprehension
-Acquisition
-Prosodic meaning |
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Rights:
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© ISCA
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Document type:
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Conference Object
Article - Published version |
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Published by:
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International Speech Communication Association
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