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Prosody does not equal language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2005

Robbins Burling
Robbins Burling*
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rburling
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rburling@umich.edu
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Prosody, in motherese as in all forms of language, has a very different form and a very different use than the central lexical, phonological, and syntactic components of language. Whereas the prosodic aspects of motherese probably derive from primate vocalization, this does not help us to understand how the more distinctive parts of language emerged.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , August 2004 , pp. 509
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004