The pitch of “real” and “rhetorical” questions directed by a father to his daughter: A longitudinal case study

Abstract A longitudinal study of a father and his daughter examined pitch-variation of “real” and “rhetorical” questions. Although the father asked “real” and “rhetorical” questions from the start of the recordings, he did not distinguish them through differential pitch height until the baby was 15 months old.

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