Extrasyllabicity, transparency and prosodic constituency in the acquisition of Polish

Łukaszewicz, Beata

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2005.03.002

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“…Studies and analyses of child language acquisition also point to the relative instability of /ʂ/. Some studies of Polish have suggested either that /ʂ/ is only acquired after / ɕ/ (Łukaszewicz 2006) and/or that the contrast between dental and retroflex places of articulation emerges quite late (Łobacz 1996). Moreover, Nittrouer & Studdert-Kennedy (1987) and Nittrouer (1992, 2002) provide evidence that children rely much more than adults on dynamic than static information for phonetic categorization: for example, young children make far greater use of vowel transitions than the noise for fricative categorization.…”

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“…Studies of the acquisition of Polish sibilants have shown that children acquire /ʂ/ relatively late and typically after the other sibilants have been acquired (Łukaszewicz 2006, 2007). The articulatory instability in /ʂ/ and the findings from language acquisition might also be related to the diachronic change of the three-way / ʂ ɕ/ to a two-way distinction as a result of an / ʂ/ merger in both the Min variety of Mandarin (Duanmu 2006, Chuang & Fon 2010) and in several Polish dialects (Żygis, Pape & Czaplicki 2012b).…”

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The articulatory and acoustic characteristics of Polish sibilants and their consequences for diachronic change

Bukmaier

Harrington

2016

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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The study is concerned with the relative synchronic stability of three contrastive sibilant fricatives /s ʂ ɕ/ in Polish. Tongue movement data were collected from nine first-language Polish speakers producing symmetrical real and non-word CVCV sequences in three vowel contexts. A Gaussian model was used to classify the sibilants from spectral information in the noise and from formant frequencies at vowel onset. The physiological analysis showed an almost complete separation between /s ʂ ɕ/ on tongue-tip parameters. The acoustic analysis showed that the greater energy at higher frequencies distinguished /s/ in the fricative noise from the other two sibilant categories. The most salient information at vowel onset was for /ɕ/, which also had a strong palatalizing effect on the following vowel. Whereas either the noise or vowel onset was largely sufficient for the identification of /s ɕ/ respectively, both sets of cues were necessary to separate /ʂ/ from /s ɕ/. The greater synchronic instability of /ʂ/ may derive from its high articulatory complexity coupled with its comparatively low acoustic salience. The data also suggest that the relatively late stage of /ʂ/ acquisition by children may come about because of the weak acoustic information in the vowel for its distinction from /s/.

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The articulatory and acoustic characteristics of Polish sibilants and their consequences for diachronic change

Bukmaier

Harrington

2016

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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“…There have been several studies of syllable-structure development in Polish (ńukaszewicz 2006, Zydorowicz 2007, Jarosz 2010, Jarosz et al to appear). Jarosz (2010) examines the development of basic CV syllable structure, in particular the relative timing of the development of initial and final clusters, but does not examine the role of sonority sequencing.…”

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“…Jarosz (2010) examines the development of basic CV syllable structure, in particular the relative timing of the development of initial and final clusters, but does not examine the role of sonority sequencing. ńukaszewicz (2006) does examine sonority-sequencing effects, but her focus is on extrasyllabic sonorants (sonorants that cannot be syllabified consistently with the SSP) and on processes that depend on it, like voicing. Consistent with the present arguments, she demonstrates that the SSP plays a role in children's development of these particularly marked configurations.…”

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Defying the stimulus: acquisition of complex onsets in Polish

Jarosz

2017

Phonology

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Behavioural findings indicate that English, Mandarin and Korean speakers exhibit gradient sonority sequencing preferences among unattested initial clusters. While some have argued these results support an innate principle, recent modelling studies have questioned this conclusion, showing that computational models capable of inducing generalisations using abstract phonological features can detect these preferences from lexical statistics in the three languages. This paper presents a computational analysis of the development of initial clusters in Polish, which arguably presents a stronger test of these models. We show that (i) the statistics of Polish contradict the Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP), favouring sonority plateaus, (ii) models that succeed in the other languages do not predict SSP preferences for Polish and (iii) children nonetheless exhibit sensitivity to the SSP, favouring onset clusters with larger sonority rises.

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“…docierać – dotrze in (5a.i) and brać – bierze in (5b)); likewise, the /ɛ/ ~ zero alternation is seen in szewek – szwy in (5a.ii). In such cases, pre-school children have been reported to have difficulty in perceiving the regularity of the connection between different forms of the same morpheme (Łukaszewicz 2006b: 16–17). Unlike Voice Assimilation, which can be internalised via pure phonotactic learning, Progressive Devoicing requires access to the morphological structure of words.…”

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The dynamical landscape: phonological acquisition and the phonology–phonetics link

Łukaszewicz

2021

Phonology

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During acquisition children internalise adult-based phonological patterns and alternately adopt and discard child-specific patterns reflecting their unskilled production. The child-specific patterns are often assumed to be low-level phonetic effects, and so, in a classical modular feedforward grammar, they should not interfere with the higher-level adult-based phonology. This paper reports an interaction in which the application of a categorical adult-based process (Voice Assimilation) is conditioned by a gradient child-specific process (fricative devoicing). Acoustic analyses of longitudinal data from a Polish-speaking child reveal variable Voice Assimilation effects in target voiced fricative–stop/stop–fricative clusters (voicing and devoicing), correlated with the extent of voicing in fricatives in non-assimilatory contexts. I analyse this phonology–phonetics trade-off by appealing to symbol-like dynamical representations, expressed in the language of non-linear mathematics. Such representations offer a non-derivational link between the qualitative and quantitative aspects of speech. Variability ensues as a natural consequence of grammar change.

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Extrasyllabicity, transparency and prosodic constituency in the acquisition of Polish

Cited by 11 publications

References 21 publications

The articulatory and acoustic characteristics of Polish sibilants and their consequences for diachronic change

The articulatory and acoustic characteristics of Polish sibilants and their consequences for diachronic change

Defying the stimulus: acquisition of complex onsets in Polish

The dynamical landscape: phonological acquisition and the phonology–phonetics link

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