This article examines the perception of tones by non-tone-language-learning (non-tone-
learning) infants between 5 and 18 months in a study that reveals infants' initial sensitivity to …

The metal ogive pedestal is claimed to have low radar cross section and low observability
features. This study uses the Geometric Theory of Diffraction (GTD) to analyze the pedestal …

This study examined how four-to five-year-olds and seven-to eight-year-olds used intonation
(accent placement and accent type) to encode topic and focus in Dutch. Naturally spoken …

This investigation focuses on the development of intonation patterns in four Catalan-
speaking children and two Spanish-speaking children between 0; 11 and 2; 4. Pitch …

This paper examines the ability of bilingual infants who were learning Dutch and another
non-tone language to discriminate tonal contrasts. All infants from 5 to 18 months of age …

This study investigates 3-to 5-year-old children's sensitivity to lexical, intonational and
gestural information in the comprehension of speaker uncertainty. Most previous studies on …

Languages differ in both the use of prosody in focus marking and prosodic systems. In the
light of recent studies of acquisition of prosodic focus marking in typologically different …

Studies of emerging prosody from the word to the phrase, integrating various sources of
evidence, are scarce, and our understanding of the pathways of prosodic development is …

Gesture and prosody are considered to be important precursors in early language
development. In the present study, we ask whether those cues play a similar role later in …

Background Many studies have analysed language development in children with Down
syndrome to understand better the nature of their linguistic delays and the reason why these …