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Some reasons why successive single word utterances are not*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

George Branigan
George Branigan
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Stonehill College
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Abstract

Two suprasegmental characteristics of three children's single-word, successive single-word and multiple-word utterances were examined spectrographically. The location of terminal pitch contour and the duration of words were compared across the three utterance types. It was found that successive single-word utterances shared suprasegmental patterns, on these dimensions, with multiple-word forms but not with single words. It is argued that successive single-word utterances are not simply single words uttered in close temporal proximity. Further, an account of the underlying organization of successive utterances is proposed.

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Journal of Child Language , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , October 1979 , pp. 411 - 421
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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This work was completed as part of a doctoral dissertation at Boston University in the Program in Applied Psycholinguistics. The author wishes to thank Paula Menyuk, Bruce Fraser, Ronnie Wilbur, William Huggins and Bill Stokes for their comments and suggestions over the duration of this work. Address for correspondence: Dept. of Child Development, Stonehill College, North Easton, MA 02356, USA.

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