The development of prosodic focus marking in French

IntroductionFrench is traditionally described as a language favoring syntactic means to mark focus, yet recent research shows that prosody is also used. We examine how French-speaking children use prosody to realize narrow focus and contrastive focus in the absence of syntactic means, compared to ad...

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Published in:Frontiers in Psychology
Main Authors: Emilie Destruel, Louise Lalande, Aoju Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-07-01
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1360308/full