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:
a) that children were aided more in disambiguating a spoken instruction if it did not come from their mother.
b) that children were aided more in disambiguating a spoken instruction if it came from their mother.
c) that linguistic prosodic cues disrupted emotional prosodic cues.
d) that extremely exaggerated pauses were helpful to syntactic disambiguation.
Answer: a
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