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Hesitations and relative proeminence in prosodic constituents in children's speech

PURPOSE: to verify if hesitations would occur, preferably, in strong or weak positions of four of the prosodic constituents: phonological utterance, intonational phrase, phonological phrase and clitic group. METHODS: the data were extracted from a bank composed of 147 interview situations recorded w...

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Autores principales: Villega, Cristyane de Camargo Sampaio, Chacon, Lourenço
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9769412/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35019076
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2317-1782/20212020220
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author Villega, Cristyane de Camargo Sampaio
Chacon, Lourenço
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Chacon, Lourenço
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description PURPOSE: to verify if hesitations would occur, preferably, in strong or weak positions of four of the prosodic constituents: phonological utterance, intonational phrase, phonological phrase and clitic group. METHODS: the data were extracted from a bank composed of 147 interview situations recorded with children aged 5-6 years. Was used the principle of relative prominence for the analysis of prosodic constituents. From this principle, the hesitant occurrences identified in prominent elements in the organization of each of the prosodic constituents was considered as for strong position and, as in a weak position, the hesitant occurrences identified in parts of constituents that surround the prominent positions. The judges detected 2.399 hesitant occurrences. RESULTS: the following total hesitations were identified in strong and weak positions, respectively: (1) in the phonological utterance = 305 (28.37%) and 770 (71.63%); (2) in the intonational phrase = 285 (20.67%) and 1094 (79.33%); (3) in the phonological phrase = 129 (16.49%) and 653 (83.51%); and (4) in the clitic group = 154 (15.21%) and 859 (84.79%). CONCLUSION: although hesitant occurrences have been identified in strong positions in all prosodic constituents analyzed, there was prevalence due to the weak position. This result corroborates studies that claim that hesitations would occur in non-nuclear prosodic portions. Furthermore to this confirmation, the results reinforce the effectiveness of the prosodic phonology model in relation to the principle of relative prominence.
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spelling pubmed-97694122023-02-01 Hesitations and relative proeminence in prosodic constituents in children's speech Villega, Cristyane de Camargo Sampaio Chacon, Lourenço Codas Original Article PURPOSE: to verify if hesitations would occur, preferably, in strong or weak positions of four of the prosodic constituents: phonological utterance, intonational phrase, phonological phrase and clitic group. METHODS: the data were extracted from a bank composed of 147 interview situations recorded with children aged 5-6 years. Was used the principle of relative prominence for the analysis of prosodic constituents. From this principle, the hesitant occurrences identified in prominent elements in the organization of each of the prosodic constituents was considered as for strong position and, as in a weak position, the hesitant occurrences identified in parts of constituents that surround the prominent positions. The judges detected 2.399 hesitant occurrences. RESULTS: the following total hesitations were identified in strong and weak positions, respectively: (1) in the phonological utterance = 305 (28.37%) and 770 (71.63%); (2) in the intonational phrase = 285 (20.67%) and 1094 (79.33%); (3) in the phonological phrase = 129 (16.49%) and 653 (83.51%); and (4) in the clitic group = 154 (15.21%) and 859 (84.79%). CONCLUSION: although hesitant occurrences have been identified in strong positions in all prosodic constituents analyzed, there was prevalence due to the weak position. This result corroborates studies that claim that hesitations would occur in non-nuclear prosodic portions. Furthermore to this confirmation, the results reinforce the effectiveness of the prosodic phonology model in relation to the principle of relative prominence. Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia 2022-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9769412/ /pubmed/35019076 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2317-1782/20212020220 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Hesitations and relative proeminence in prosodic constituents in children's speech
title_fullStr Hesitations and relative proeminence in prosodic constituents in children's speech
title_full_unstemmed Hesitations and relative proeminence in prosodic constituents in children's speech
title_short Hesitations and relative proeminence in prosodic constituents in children's speech
title_sort hesitations and relative proeminence in prosodic constituents in children's speech
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9769412/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35019076
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2317-1782/20212020220
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