Early strategies for the perception and production of words and sounds

Menyuk, Paula; Menu, Lise; Silber, Ronnie

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511620683.012

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“…15. These vocalizations have been called "phonetically consistent forms" (Dore, Franklin, Miller, & Ramer, 1976), "indexical signs" (Dore, 1986), "sensorimotor morphemes" (Carter, 1979), "protowords" (Halliday, 1975;Menn, 1976;Menyuk & Menn, 1979), and "quasiwords" (Stoel-Gammon & Cooper, 1984). 16.…”

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Language and the career of similarity

Gentner¹,

Rattermann

1991

Perspectives on Language and Thought

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Language and the career of similarity

Gentner¹,

Rattermann

1991

Perspectives on Language and Thought

331

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“…Because young children do not exhibit the same sensitivity to phonetic detail that adults do, researchers have suggested that children store words holistically, perhaps in terms of prosodic structure and/or overall acoustic shape or perhaps in terms of some coarsely defined phonetic features (e.g., Ferguson & Farwell, 1975;Treiman & Baron, 1981). Some researchers have posited that childrenÕs lexical representations are stored holistically only until the onset of the vocabulary spurt at approximately 19 months of age (Ferguson, 1986;Ferguson & Farwell, 1975;Locke, 1988;Menyuk & Menn, 1979;Studdert-Kennedy, 1986). Others have argued that holistic lexical representations continue throughout early childhood until the lexicon is restructured as either a precursor to or a consequence of learning to read 1 (e.g., Fowler, 1991;Jusczyk, 1986;Metsala & Walley, 1998;Treiman & Baron, 1981;Walley, 1993).…”

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Young children’s sensitivity to probabilistic phonotactics in the developing lexicon

Coady

Aslin

2004

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

114

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A series of three experiments examined children's sensitivity to probabilistic phonotactic structure as reflected in the relative frequencies with which speech sounds occur and co-occur in American English. Children, ages 212 and 312 years, participated in a nonword repetition task that examined their sensitivity to the frequency of individual phonetic segments and to the frequency of combinations of segments. After partialling out ease of articulation and lexical variables, both groups of children repeated higher phonotactic frequency nonwords more accurately than they did low phonotactic frequency nonwords, suggesting sensitivity to phoneme frequency. In addition, sensitivity to individual phonetic segments increased with age. Finally, older children, but not younger children, were sensitive to the frequency of larger (diphone) units. These results suggest not only that young children are sensitive to fine-grained acoustic-phonetic information in the developing lexicon but also that sensitivity to all aspects of the sound structure increases over development. Implications for the acoustic nature of both developing and mature lexical representations are discussed.

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“…These results argue against the possibility that anticipatory coarticulation derives from uniform, innate, genetically transmitted motor control patterns. Although individual differences might conceivably be genetically transmitted, it is most implausible that language-specific differences, for example Nittrouer (1985) claimed that these results support an acquisition process in which children's initial analysis of phonological sequences may be in terms of syllabic units which contain coarticulatory information rather than segments which do not (Menyuk and Menn, 1979 A. Methods…”

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confidence: 99%