Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics & Pázmány Péter Catholic University.
Pázmány Péter Catholic University & Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
J Child Lang. 2022 Jul;49(4):824-838. doi: 10.1017/S0305000921000313. Epub 2021 May 19.
This study investigates children's identification of prosodic focus in Hungarian, a language in which syntactic focus-marking is mandatory. Assuming that regular syntactic focus-marking diminishes the disambiguating role of prosodic marking in acquisition, we expected that in sentences in which focus is only disambiguated by prosody, adult-like comprehension of prosodic focus-marking should be delayed in comparison to the Germanic and Romance languages investigated previously using the same experimental method that we adopted. Our results, confirming this prediction, suggest that the developmental trajectory of the comprehension of prosodic focus-marking may be substantially affected by cross-linguistic grammatical variation in the marking of focus.
这项研究调查了儿童对匈牙利语韵律焦点的识别，匈牙利语是一种必须使用句法焦点标记的语言。我们假设，有规律的句法焦点标记会降低韵律标记在习得中的区分作用，因此，我们预计在那些只能通过韵律来消除焦点歧义的句子中，与之前使用我们所采用的相同实验方法研究过的日耳曼语和罗曼语相比，成人对韵律焦点标记的理解会延迟。我们的结果证实了这一预测，表明在焦点标记的跨语言语法差异的影响下，韵律焦点标记理解的发展轨迹可能会受到很大影响。
