Children's Sensitivity to Prosody and Ostension in Answers to Wh-Questions
Bethany Mary Stoddard, Jill de Villiers · Smith ScholarWorks (Smith College) · 2021
This paper examines the effects of two often overlooked factors in children’s answers to wh-questions: the prosodic contour of the question and the complexity of the visual stimuli. There are two potential effects on the interpretation of a question in English: whether it is moved, and what kind of prosody it has.