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KMID : 1022420140060030023
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2014 Volume.6 No. 3 p.23 ~ p.32
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The Prosodic Characteristics of Pre-school Age Children-Related Adults
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Kim Ji-Won
Seong Cheol-Jae
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Abstract
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This study presents the prosodic characteristics of 'Motherese' and 'Teacherese (child care teacher and kindergartenteacher)'. 21 mothers and 24 teachers spoke to children in the child care center or kindergarten. Children are in their4;00-6;11. Speech and articulation rate, number of accentual phrases (APs), number of intonational phrases (IPs), pitch-relatedfactors (f0, pitch range, f0 standard deviation), and intonation slope (mean Absolute, f0, q-tone slope) were measured. 2groups spoke 2 sentential types (interrogative_ alternative question, declarative_ coordinated sentence) in 2 situations (oneaccompanied with the children, the other done without children, but pretending as if they were in front of the children). Theresults indicate that teachers show more noticeable prosodic characteristics than mothers do.
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KEYWORD
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prosodic characteristic, motherese, teacherese, speech rate, APs, IPs, pitch, intonation slope
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