We compared the manifestation of prosodic lengthening in child-directed speech with the adult-directed speech of 6 Catalan and English women. Results showed a less variegated system of prosodic lengthening in CDS, with the selective enhancement of certain structures, notably phrasefinal lengthening and (in English) nuclear accented syllables.
Index Terms: child-directed speech, prosodic lengthening, Catalan, English.
Cite as: Payne, E., Post, B., Astruc, L., Prieto, P., Vanrell, M.d.M. (2010) A cross-linguistic study of prosodic lengthening in child-directed speech. Proc. Speech Prosody 2010, paper 319
@inproceedings{payne10_speechprosody,
author={Elinor Payne and Brechtje Post and Lluïsa Astruc and Pilar Prieto and Maria del Mar Vanrell},
title={{A cross-linguistic study of prosodic lengthening in child-directed speech}},
year=2010,
booktitle={Proc. Speech Prosody 2010},
pages={paper 319}
}