title: It's a question? Infants attend differently to yes/no questions and declaratives.
abstract: We examined infants' perception of the intonational characteristics of yes-no questions and declarative sentences in English. Both infants habituated to questions and those habituated to declaratives preferred the question forms at test, suggesting that infants process these two sentence types differently.
authors.affiliation: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. M_Soderstrom@umanitoba.ca
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soderstrom
authors.forename: Eon-Suk
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Ko
authors.forename: Uliana
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Nevzorova
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018730:Infant Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D010898:Pitch Perception / Q000502:physiology; D012938:Social Perception; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology