Previous crosslinguistic research has shown that the most salient referents are referred to with the most reduced referring expressions.
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We discuss our findings with respect to crosslinguistic variation and the development of a language-specific prosodic cue weighting.
Caroline eWellmann, Julia eHolzgrefe, Hubert eTruckenbrodt, Isabell eWartenburger,Barbara eHöhle 2012, 'How each prosodic boundary cue matters: Evidence from German infants', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00580/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)