Children's Sensitivity to Prosody and Ostension in Answers to Wh-Questions

Authors

Bethany Stoddard, Goethe Universität
Jill de Villiers, Smith CollegeFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2021

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 45th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development

Abstract

This paper examines the effects of two often overlooked factors in children’s answers to wh-questions: the prosodic contour of the question and the complexity of the visual stimuli. There are two potential effects on the interpretation of a question in English: whether it is moved, and what kind of prosody it has.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Rights

Licensed to Smith College and distributed CC-BY under the Smith College Faculty Open Access Policy

Comments

Peer reviewed accepted manuscript.

To be published in 2021 by Cascadilla Press.

Recommended Citation

Stoddard, Bethany and de Villiers, Jill, "Children's Sensitivity to Prosody and Ostension in Answers to Wh-Questions" (2021). Philosophy: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/phi_facpubs/38