This book investigates the acquisition of intonation by
German/English bilingual children. Intonation is analysed both
auditorily and instrumentally, and the transcription system of the
British Tradition and the ToBI system in the autosegmental-metrical
approach of intonation analysis are employed. Based on longitudinal
data of three children comprising the ages 2 years 1 month (2;1) to
5 years 6 months (5;6), the acquisition sequence for the
phonological rules and phonetic production of nucleus placement,
pitch and intonational phrasing is sketched. Some phonological
functions of nucleus placement and pitch such as the marking of
contrast or the type of speech act are mastered as early as 2;1
whilst intonational phrasing is first used phonologically at 4;6.
Mastery of the phonetic production of all three intonational
systems is acquired much later, and acquisition is not completed
yet at 5;6. In general, interindividual differences and a clear
separation of both language systems are apparent in all children,
with a considerable time lag in the acquisition of the weaker
language. It is concluded that both transcription systems for
intonation need to be modified for the analysis of child speech and
that the autosegmental-metrical approach with its distinction
between the phonological and the phonetic level proves a more
flexible and descriptively valuable tool.
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