%0 Book Section %T Early perception of phrasal prosody and its role in syntactic and lexical acquisition %+ Laboratoire de sciences cognitives et psycholinguistique (LSCP) %+ University of Edinburgh %+ Laboratoire d'Etude de l'Apprentissage et du Développement [Dijon] (LEAD) %A de Carvalho, Alex, A %A Dautriche, Isabelle %A Millotte, Séverine %A Anne, Christophe %Z Chapter: 2, pp. 17-35 %@ 978-90-272-0059-4 %B The development of prosody in first language acquisition %E Pilar Prieto, Núria Esteve-Gibert %I John Benjamins publishing compagny %C Amsterdam %S Trends in language acquisition research (ISSN 1569-0644) %V 23 %P 17-35 %8 2018-04 %D 2018 %K Phrasal prosody %K Langage -- Acquisition %Z Trends in language acquisition research, ISSN 1569-0644 ; 23 %Z Cognitive science/PsychologyBook sections %X This chapter will review empirical findings on the perception of phrasal prosody in very young infants, and how it develops in first language acquisition. The ability to process phrasal prosody impacts learning of important aspects of language, specifically word segmentation and syntactic parsing. We will see that infants are able to perceive crucial aspects of phrasal prosody before the end of their first year of life, and that a few months later they are able to exploit the prosodic structure of an utterance to constrain its syntactic analysis, and therefore, to infer the meaning of unknown words. %G English %L hal-01996751 %U https://u-bourgogne.hal.science/hal-01996751 %~ ENS-PARIS %~ UNIV-BOURGOGNE %~ CNRS %~ EHESS %~ LSCP %~ DEC %~ PSL %~ LEAD_UB %~ ENS-PSL %~ EHESS-PSL