APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

Children’s Decoding of Context Specific Prosody in Four Languages

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Cognitive

Session: Poster Session IX

Authors

Abstract

This study examined whether 3- to 5-year-olds can distinguish between a success and a failure event by relying on prosody. Results showed that 3- to 5-year-olds can use context specific prosody to interpret a categorical meaning (success, failure), and the ability to interpret prosody appears independent from word meaning comprehension.

Communication