Interpelación entre vocalizaciones y desarrollo prosódico en funciones comunicativas tempranas

Abstract

Interrelation between vocalization and prosodic development in early communication functions. This study explores the communicative intention in the relationship between vocalizations and linguistic prosody in the transition to first words. The corpus of analysis has been built taken into account six Basque children at age 1;8 and 1;8 being Basque the mother tongue. The analysis has focused on the vocal production of a total of 675 vocalizations extracted from approximately 3 h of at-home made recording. The extracted data shows that (1) communicative and non-communicative vocalizations are not significantly different based on pitch final contour, (2) early communicative functions can be differentiated based on their final pitch contour, especially the imperative and phatic functions by association with the rising final pitch contour.