Acquisition of Prosody

Research projects on the acquisition of prosody

1. Acquisition of prosody in L1 (APriL)

An international collaboration investigating the acquisition of rhythm and intonation in Catalan, Spanish and English

Investigators

Lluïsa Astruc: Open University
Elinor Payne: University of Oxford
Brechtje Post: University of Cambridge
Pilar Prieto: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Maria del Mar Vanrell: Universitat des Illes Balears

Grants

A cross-linguistic study of intonational development in young infants and children, £7,365, British Academy Small Research Grant (PI: Brechtje Post);
Intonation acquisition in Catalan, Spanish and English, €7,100, Batista i Roca Foundation (PI: Pilar Prieto)
Rhythm acquisition in Catalan, Castilian and English, €9,290, Batista i Roca Foundation (PI: Pilar Prieto)

Publications

Post, B. & E. Payne (2018) “Speech rhythm in development: What is the child acquiring”, in P. Prieto and N. Esteve-Gibert (eds) Prosodic Development in First Language Acquisition, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 125-144
Astruc, L., E. Payne, B. Post, P. Prieto & M. Vanrell (2013) “Tonal targets in early child Catalan, Spanish and English”, Language and Speech, 56: 229-253
Payne, E., B. Post, L. Astruc, P. Prieto & M. Vanrell (2012) “Measuring child rhythm”, Language and Speech, 55:2, 203-229
Prieto, P., M. Vanrell, L. Astruc, E. Payne & B. Post (2012) “Phonotactic and phrasal properties of speech rhythm. Evidence from Catalan, English, and Spanish”, Speech Communication, 54, 681-702
Vanrell, M., L. Astruc, E. Payne, B. Post & P. Prieto (2011) “Adquisició dels patrons d'alineació i de camp tonal en català i espanyol”, Anejo de Quaderns de Filologia, 71-88
Payne, E., E. Eftychiou, B. Post, L. Astruc, P. Prieto & M. Vanrell (2011) “The Status of Variable Phonetic Output in Early Child Speech”, in W. Lee & E. Zee (eds), Proc 17th ICPhS, Hong Kong, 1574-1577
Payne, E., B. Post, L. Astruc, P. Prieto & M. Vanrell (2010) “Rhythmic Modification in Child Directed Speech”, in M. Russo (ed.) Prosodic Universals. Comparative Studies in Rhythmic Modeling and Rhythm Typology, Rome: Aracne Editrice, 147-184
Payne, E., B. Post, L. Astruc, P. Prieto & M. Vanrell (2010) “A cross-linguistic study of prosodic lengthening in child-directed speech”, Proc. of Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, paper 319
Prieto, P., M. Vanrell, L. Astruc, E. Payne & B. Post (2010) “Speech rhythm as durational marking of prosodic heads and edges. Evidence from Catalan, English and Spanish”, Proc. of Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, paper 951
Vanrell, M., P. Prieto, L. Astruc, E. Payne & B. Post (2010) “Early Acquisition of F0 Alignment and Scaling Patterns in Catalan and Spanish, Proc. of Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, paper 168
L. Astruc, E. Payne, Post, B., P. Prieto & M. Vanrell (2010) “Word prosody in early child Catalan, Spanish and English”, Proc. of Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, paper 173

2. Acquisition of Consonant Timing (ACT)

An international collaboration investigating the acquisition of prosodic-phonetic biases in consonant timing and clusters in English and Nowegian

Investigators

Nina Gram Garmann: University of Oslo Met
Hanne Gram Simonsen: University of Oslo
Elinor Payne: University of Oxford
Brechtje Post: University of Cambridge

Grants

The acquisition of consonant timing: a study in cross-linguistic micro-variation, £9,700, British Academy Small Research Grant (PI: Elinor Payne);
MultiLing grant, The Research Council of Norway through its Centres for Multilingualism in Society (project number 223265; PI: Nina Garmann)
Variation in input as a source of cross-linguistic divergence in acquisition, £6,205, University of Oxford's John Fell Fund (PI: Elinor Payne)
Grant from the Faculty of Education and International Studies at OsloMet (PI: Nina Garmann)

Publications

Garmann, Nina, G., Hansen, Pernille; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Holm, Elisabeth; Tengesdal, Eirik; Post, Brechtje; Payne, Elinor (2021). Vocalic Intrusions in Consonant Clusters in Child-Directed vs. Adult-Directed Speech. Frontiers in Psychology
Garmann, N., Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Hansen, Pernille; Holm, Elisabeth Post, Brechtje; Payne, Elinor (2020). Cross-linguistic variation in word-initial cluster production in adult and child language: evidence from English and Norwegian. Journal of Child Language, vol. 48, 1-30
Payne, E., B. Post, N. Garmann, & H. Simonsen (2017) “The acquisition of long consonants in Norwegian”, in H. Kubozono (ed.) Geminate Consonants, Oxford: OUP, 130-162
Payne, Elinor; Post, Brechtje; Garmann, Nina, G; Simonsen, Hanne Gram (2015). "VC timing acquisition: Integrating phonetics and phonology". In M. Wolters et al (eds) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow