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

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

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

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

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Abstract

In this paper, novel data concerning the marking of contrastive focus in two modalities are presented. Using data from an elicitation task conducted with children acquiring English and children acquiring American Sign Language (ASL), focused constituents in both speech and sign modalities are shown to be marked by a bundle of prosodic features. It is observed 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)
Editors	Laurel Perkins, Rachel Dudley, Juliana Gerard, Kasia Hitczenko
Place of Publication	Somerville, MA
Publisher	Cascadilla Proceedings Project
Pages	13-23
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	9781574734683
Publication status	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (6th : 2015) - Maryland, USA Duration: 19 Feb 2015 → 21 Feb 2015

Conference

Conference	Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (6th : 2015)
City	Maryland, USA
Period	19/02/15 → 21/02/15

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Gökgöz, K., Bogomolets, K., Tieu, L., Levi Palmer, J., & Lillo-Martin, D. (2016). Contrastive focus in children acquiring English and ASL: cues of prominence. In L. Perkins, R. Dudley, J. Gerard, & K. Hitczenko (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2015) (pp. 13-23). Cascadilla Proceedings Project. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/galana/6/

Gökgöz, Kadir ; Bogomolets, Ksenia ; Tieu, Lyn et al. / Contrastive focus in children acquiring English and ASL : cues of prominence. Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2015). editor / Laurel Perkins ; Rachel Dudley ; Juliana Gerard ; Kasia Hitczenko. Somerville, MA : Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2016. pp. 13-23

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Gökgöz, K, Bogomolets, K, Tieu, L, Levi Palmer, J & Lillo-Martin, D 2016, Contrastive focus in children acquiring English and ASL: cues of prominence. in L Perkins, R Dudley, J Gerard & K Hitczenko (eds), Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2015). Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, pp. 13-23, Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (6th : 2015), Maryland, USA, 19/02/15. <http://www.lingref.com/cpp/galana/6/>

Contrastive focus in children acquiring English and ASL: cues of prominence. / Gökgöz, Kadir; Bogomolets, Ksenia; Tieu, Lyn et al.
Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2015). ed. / Laurel Perkins; Rachel Dudley; Juliana Gerard; Kasia Hitczenko. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2016. p. 13-23.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution

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