University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
Infant Behav Dev. 2011 Feb;34(1):107-10. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2010.10.003. Epub 2010 Dec 15.
We examined infants' perception of the intonational characteristics of yes-no questions and declarative sentences in English. Both infants habituated to questions and those habituated to declaratives preferred the question forms at test, suggesting that infants process these two sentence types differently.
我们研究了婴儿对英语中 yes-no 疑问句和陈述句的语调特征的感知。习惯问句和习惯陈述句的婴儿在测试中都更喜欢问句形式,这表明婴儿对这两种句型的处理方式不同。