Accentual lengthening in 5-year-old AusE-speaking children: preliminary results

Ivan Yuen; Nan Xu Rattanasone; Elaine Schmidt; Gretel Macdonald; Rebecca Holt; Katherine Demuth

Accentual lengthening in 5-year-old AusE-speaking children: preliminary results

Ivan Yuen, Nan Xu Rattanasone, Elaine Schmidt, Gretel Macdonald, Rebecca Holt, Katherine Demuth

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Abstract

Although contrastive focus is reported in children’s
productions, their perception remains poor. However,
judgement of contrastive focus in production is typically based on perceptual evaluation, and the stimuli in production and perception studies often differ in the number of syllables and sentence positions. Since both factors influence accentual lengthening in adults, this raises questions about children’s ability to produce and generalize the durational cue to focus across different items. Eight AusE adults and 8 children participated in an elicited production task. Unlike the adults, children used accentual lengthening only on monosyllabic, not disyllabic words, and showed no additional phrase-final
lengthening.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
Subtitle of host publication	SST 2016
Editors	Christopher Carignan, Michael D. Tyler Tyler
Place of Publication	Canberra
Publisher	Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA)
Pages	21-24
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (16th : 2016) - Parramatta, Australia Duration: 6 Dec 2016 → 9 Dec 2016 Conference number: 16th

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
ISSN (Electronic)	2207-1296

Conference

Conference	Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (16th : 2016)
Abbreviated title	SST2016
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Parramatta
Period	6/12/16 → 9/12/16

Keywords

accentual lengthening
phrase-final lengthening
Australian English
contrastive focus

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Yuen, I., Xu Rattanasone, N., Schmidt, E., Macdonald, G., Holt, R., & Demuth, K. (2016). Accentual lengthening in 5-year-old AusE-speaking children: preliminary results. In C. Carignan, & M. D. T. Tyler (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology: SST 2016 (pp. 21-24). (Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA).

Yuen, Ivan ; Xu Rattanasone, Nan ; Schmidt, Elaine et al. / Accentual lengthening in 5-year-old AusE-speaking children : preliminary results. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology: SST 2016. editor / Christopher Carignan ; Michael D. Tyler Tyler. Canberra : Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA), 2016. pp. 21-24 (Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology).

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Yuen, I , Xu Rattanasone, N, Schmidt, E, Macdonald, G, Holt, R & Demuth, K 2016, Accentual lengthening in 5-year-old AusE-speaking children: preliminary results. in C Carignan & MDT Tyler (eds), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology: SST 2016. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA), Canberra, pp. 21-24, Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (16th : 2016), Parramatta, Australia, 6/12/16.

Accentual lengthening in 5-year-old AusE-speaking children: preliminary results. / Yuen, Ivan ; Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Schmidt, Elaine et al.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology: SST 2016. ed. / Christopher Carignan; Michael D. Tyler Tyler. Canberra: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA), 2016. p. 21-24 (Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology).

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