The acquisition of prosodic focus-marking in Central Swedish: Sorting out lexical and post-lexical tones
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In many languages prosody is used for marking focus, but the way this is done varies from one language to the next. Previous work on the acquisition of prosodic focus marking has been centred on English, German and Dutch, thus little is known about how prosodic focus is acquired outside West-Germanic varieties. We present a study of prosodic focus marking in Central Swedish, showing how the focus-marking high tone is used in an adult-like way from the age of seven, but that children between four and five are still developing toward adult proficiency.
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