Kempe,Shaeffler,and Thoresen (2010)investigated the Relationship Between Emotional and Linguistic Prosodic

Kempe,Shaeffler,and Thoresen (2010) investigated the relationship between emotional and linguistic prosodic inherent in child-directed speech (CDS) by having mothers and nonmothers interact with children.They found that

A) children were aided more in disambiguating a spoken instruction if it did not come from their mother.
B) children were aided more in disambiguating a spoken instruction if it came from their mother.
C) linguistic prosodic cues disrupted emotional prosodic cues.
D) extremely exaggerated pauses were helpful to syntactic disambiguation.