@article{HuttenlauchBeerHanneKlothetal.2021,
  author    = {Huttenlauch, Clara and Beer, Carola de and Hanne-Kloth, Sandra and Wartenburger, Isabell},
  title     = {Production of prosodic cues in coordinate name sequences addressing varying interlocutors},
  series = {Laboratory phonology},
  volume    = {12},
  journal   = {Laboratory phonology},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Ubiquity Press},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {1868-6346},
  doi       = {10.5334/labphon.221},
  pages     = {31},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Prosodic boundaries can be used to disambiguate the syntactic structure of coordinated name sequences (coordinates). To answer the question whether disambiguating prosody is produced in a situationally dependent or independent manner and to contribute to our understanding of the nature of the prosody-syntax link, we systematically explored variability in the prosody of boundary productions of coordinates evoked by different contextual settings in a referential communication task. Our analysis focused on prosodic boundaries produced to distinguish sequences with different syntactic structures (i.e., with or without internal grouping of the constituents). In German, these prosodic boundaries are indicated by three major prosodic cues: f0-range, final lengthening, and pause. In line with the Proximity/Anti-Proximity principle of the syntax-prosody model by Kentner and Fery (2013), speakers clearly use all three cues for constituent grouping and prosodically mark groups within and at their right boundary, indicating that prosodic phrasing is not a local phenomenon. Intra-individually, we found a rather stable prosodic pattern across contexts. However, inter-individually speakers differed from each other with respect to the prosodic cue combinations that they (consistently) used to mark the boundaries. Overall, our data speak in favour of a close link between syntax and prosody and for situational independence of disambiguating prosody.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SchroederHoehle2011,
  author    = {Schr{\"o}der, C. and H{\"o}hle, Barbara},
  title     = {Prosodic perception during early language acquisition},
  series = {Sprache, Stimme, Geh{\"o}r : Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Kommunikationsst{\"o}rungen},
  volume    = {35},
  journal   = {Sprache, Stimme, Geh{\"o}r : Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Kommunikationsst{\"o}rungen},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Thieme},
  address   = {Stuttgart},
  issn      = {0342-0477},
  doi       = {10.1055/s-0031-1284404},
  pages     = {E91 -- E98},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {Prosody plays an important role in early language acquisition that in most children proceeds rapidly and easily. From birth on infants are able to perceive prosodic information in the speech signal. During the course of the first year of life prosodic perception abilities continue to develop. Cross-linguistic studies have shown that this development is already influenced by the native language. As prosodic and syntactic units occur often in correlation, prosodic cues in the continuous speech signal might help infants to derive information on how to segment their native language into syntactically relevant units. Indeed, infants use their prosodic perception and are able to detect word, phrase and clause boundaries using prosodic cues from the speech signal. Thus, during the first year of life when perceiving speech the processing of prosodic cues is focussed and allows for an efficient access to language acquisition. Future studies need to determine whether early prosodic perception abilities can provide markers for later language development and predict language impairment.},
  language  = {de}
}