L’intonazione delle narrazioni di bambini ed adulti italiani: Un’analisi all’interno dell’approccio autosegmentale metrico

Paola Zanchi; Mariapaola D'Imperio; Laura Zampini; Mirco Fasolo

doi:10.17469/O2102AISV000010

Authors

Paola Zanchi Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli Studi di MilanoBicocca, Milano
Mariapaola D'Imperio Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS - Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, LPL, Aix-en-Provence, France
Laura Zampini Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli Studi di MilanoBicocca, Milano
Mirco Fasolo Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Imaging e Scienze Cliniche, Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio”, Chieti-Pescara

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17469/O2102AISV000010

Keywords:

intonation, preschoolers, language development, AM approach, ToBI transcription

Abstract

This study aims to compare the intonation used in narratives by Italian 3-year-old children and adults. Indeed, just few studies investigated the prosodic characteristic of complex language, such as discourse or narration, in childhood (e.g., Redford, Dilley, Gamache & Wieland, 2012; De Ruiter, 2014). The intonation was transcribed using the ToBI system, cast within the Autosegmental-Metrical theory. The results show that 3-year-old children can use the same nuclear pitch accent than adults, but they do not produce rising boundary tones in the same measure than adults. These results are discussed considering the possible relationships between intonation and cognitive development.