Children's Intonation (eBook)

Bill Wells and Joy Stackhouse are both Professors within the Department of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield, UK

Foreword vi

Preface viii

Acknowledgements xi

About the companion website xii

1 Intonation 1

2 Turns 17

3 Focus 40

4 Actions 68

5 The Intonation In Interaction Profile (IIP) 92

6 Infancy 113

7 Preschool years 139

8 School years 168

9 Models 199

10 Speech, language and literacy impairments 214

11 Autism spectrum disorders and learning difficulties 249

12 Hearing impairment and cochlear implants 276

References 301

Appendix 1 Transcription conventions and symbols 311

Appendix 2 Background to the recordings of Robin and his mother 314

Appendix 3 The Intonation In Interaction Profile (IIP): Proforma 315

Appendix 4 The Developmental Phase Model 319

Appendix 5 The Intonation Processing Model 324

Appendix 6 The Intonation In Interaction Profile: Mick 325

Appendix 7 The Intonation In Interaction Profile: Jacob 329

Appendix 8 Phonetic transcript: Ricky 333

Index 343

"Each chapter is clearly structured, and provides transcribed excerpts from parent-child or child-child talk (often illuminated by recorded data on the authors' website), which are then analysed and profiled; enabling the reader to identify the nature of potential intonation difficulties, and to interpret these as a starting point for planning possible intervention. I recommend this book as a valuable resource." (RCSLT Bulletin 2016)