Investigation of Sli Children’s Semantic Knowledge through Intonation Patterns
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This paper aims to investigate domain-specificity of SLI, by examining SLI children’s semantic knowledge through their intonation patterns for contrastive focus and prosodic boundaries. Our results revealed that 1) SLI children's placement of contrastive focus is comparable to that of normally developing children, 2) SLI children has wider pitch range than normally developing children, and 3) SLI children may have problems in their prosody, especially when the prosodic domain becomes longer.
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