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Hirayama, Manami; Colantoni, Laura; Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Recursive NPs are difficult to produce and late to emerge. We compare prosodic and syntactic abilities in Japanese-speaking five- and six-year-olds (n = 28) and adults (n = 10). It is reported that syntactic structure in Japanese is prosodically marked via downstep and metrical boost. Results of an elicited imitation task suggested that children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Japanese, Suprasegmentals, Cognitive Processes

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