The Influence of Prosody on Children’s Processing of Ambiguous Sentences
Abstract: Studies in adults have shown that syntactic ambiguity can be effectively resolved with the help of prosodic cues, studies in children have found little or no effect of prosody on ambiguity resolution. In view of this discrepancy, a picture selection task was designed in order to investigate whether children can resolve syntactic ambiguities with the help of strong prosodic boundary cues.
This paper argues that children are capable of prosodic disambiguation using the same processing mechanisms as adults. The results clearly support this hypothesis and refute claims that children are unable to resolve syntactic ambiguities with ...
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