Snow David
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038, USA.
Child Dev. 2006 Mar-Apr;77(2):281-96. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00870.x.
The purpose of this study was to describe the pattern in which English-speaking children acquire intonation. A second goal was to account for emerging intonation from a theoretical perspective. Six groups of 10 children each between the ages of 6 and 23 months participated in individual play sessions with their mothers and an experimenter. Pitch contours were acoustically analyzed in monosyllabic utterances produced by each child. The observed nonlinear shape of intonation development suggested a linguistically based pattern of regression and reorganization. However, the precocious expression of intonation in the youngest infants also pointed to the role of physiological universals and emotional experience. It is concluded that children's early intonation reflects biological, affective, and linguistic influences.
本研究的目的是描述说英语的儿童习得语调的模式。第二个目标是从理论角度解释语调的出现。六组儿童，每组10名，年龄在6至23个月之间，与他们的母亲和一名实验者进行了单独的游戏环节。对每个孩子发出的单音节话语的音高轮廓进行了声学分析。观察到的语调发展的非线性形状表明了一种基于语言的回归和重组模式。然而，最小婴儿语调的早熟表达也指出了生理普遍性和情感体验的作用。得出的结论是，儿童早期的语调反映了生物、情感和语言的影响。
