Differences in contrastive focus marking in speech of adults and children under typical and atypical phonological acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese

Authors

  • Geovana Soncin Universidade Estadual Paulista
  • Cecília Lorena Silva Guida Universidade Estadual Paulista
  • Fernanda Leitão de Castro Nunes de Lima Universidade Estadual Paulista
  • Larissa Cristina Berti Universidade Estadual Paulista

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v26i2p375-395

Keywords:

Phonological acquisition, Speech production, Prosody, Focus, Phonological disorder

Abstract

The goal of this article is to characterize acoustically and compare prosodic focus marking in speech of adults, children under typical language development and children diagnosed with phonological disorders. Speech samples were obtained from an experiment designed to elicit sentences with contrastive focus and neutral sentences. Acoustical analysis of fundamental frequency, duration and intensity was performed on the sentences produced by each participant’s groups. The results show that groups performed differently in marking contrastive focus by using the three phonetic parameters and suggest that children with phonological disorders may present instabilities in the prosodic plan.

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Author Biographies

  • Geovana Soncin, Universidade Estadual Paulista

    Doutora em Estudos Linguísticos pela Universidade Estadual Paulista. Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Fonoaudiologia da Universidade Estadual Paulista, campus de Marília, SP. Atualmente é Bolsista FAPESP do Programa Jovem Pesquisador (Proc. 2020/10144-3

  • Cecília Lorena Silva Guida, Universidade Estadual Paulista

    Mestranda em Fonoaudiologia

  • Fernanda Leitão de Castro Nunes de Lima, Universidade Estadual Paulista

    Doutoranda em Fonoaudiologia. 

  • Larissa Cristina Berti, Universidade Estadual Paulista

    Doutora em Estudos Linguísticos. Professora do Departamento de Fonoaudiologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Marília, SP,

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2024-12-31

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Vol. 26 No. 2 (2024)

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Soncin, G., Guida, C. L. S. ., Lima, F. L. de C. N. de ., & Berti, L. C. (2024). Differences in contrastive focus marking in speech of adults and children under typical and atypical phonological acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese. Filologia E Linguística Portuguesa, 26(2), 375-395. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v26i2p375-395

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