Contrastive focus in children acquiring English and ASL : cues of prominence

Kadir Gokgoz; Ksenia Bogomolets; Lyn Tieu; Jeffrey Levi Palmer; Diane Lillo-Martin

Contrastive focus in children acquiring English and ASL : cues of prominence

Kadir Gokgoz, Ksenia Bogomolets, Lyn Tieu, Jeffrey Levi Palmer, Diane Lillo-Martin

Western Sydney University

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Abstract

![CDATA[In this paper, we present novel data concerning the marking of contrastive focus in two modalities. Using data from an elicitation task conducted with children acquiring English and children acquiring American Sign Language (ASL), we demonstrate that focused constituents in both speech and sign modalities are marked by a bundle of prosodic features. We observe that increased duration and intensity are cross-linguistically relevant cues of contrastive focus despite the differences between the two modalities.]]

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2015), University of Maryland, February 19-21, 2015
Publisher	Cascadilla Proceedings Project
Pages	13-23
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	9781574734683
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America - Duration: 1 Jan 2016 → …

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Conference	Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America
Period	1/01/16 → …

Keywords

English language
language acquisition
children
American Sign Language

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Gokgoz, K, Bogomolets, K, Tieu, L, Palmer, JL & Lillo-Martin, D 2016, Contrastive focus in children acquiring English and ASL : cues of prominence. in Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2015), University of Maryland, February 19-21, 2015. Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp. 13-23, Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America, 1/01/16.

Contrastive focus in children acquiring English and ASL : cues of prominence. / Gokgoz, Kadir; Bogomolets, Ksenia; Tieu, Lyn et al.
Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2015), University of Maryland, February 19-21, 2015. Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2016. p. 13-23.

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