The Phonetics of cat and mama

Labov, William; Labov, Teresa

doi:10.2307/413236

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“…Fig. 1 shows the inventory of consonant-like sounds of a 15-month old girl named Jessie (Labov & Labov 1978). One can see the (uncircled) subset of possible English consonants that was in her system at the time of the Labov's observations.…”

Section: Requirements For Predictionmentioning

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Babbling and early speech: continuity and individual differences

Locke

1989

First Language

117

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One of the recognized precursors to speaking is babbling. The relatedness of these activities is suggested, in the typical case, by the developmentally continuous manner in which babbling flows into and coexists with speaking, the shared morphology of babble and speech, and the socially similar ways that children display (and presumably use) babbling and speaking. Nevertheless, the developmental significance of babbling is unknown. In this paper, I sample findings on normally developing children as well as special populations, including hearingimpaired, retarded, and tracheostomized children, and experimental work on song birds. Attention is given to the question of whether individual differences in babbling are carried over into speaking. I also ask whether it is or should be possible to anticipate deviant or delayed speech from analyses of prelinguistic vocalization and, if so, what that would tell us about the theoretical significance of babbling.Over the past 20 or 30 years there has been increasing curiosity over the possible relatedness of children's early speech and many of the ostensibly 'prelinguistic' vocal behaviours which occur previously. With recent growth of this interest, there have been several attempts to see if it might be possible to predict children's speech or language development from analyses of infants' vocal patterns. This concern with prediction may have developed partly because babbling and speech seemed to be related, therefore that prediction ought to be possible, and partly because predictability of one from the other seemed to be a good way of determining if babbling and speech are, in fact, related.And, indeed, there are good theoretical and practical reasons for seeking to know whether prelexical vocal behaviour allows accurate predictions of later speech and language development. On the theoretical side, accurate

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Section: Requirements For Predictionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Babbling and early speech: continuity and individual differences

Locke

1989

First Language

117

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“…Only then can they come to act as if they have agreed on meanings for those categories (Stoel-Gammon, 2011). The notion of negotiation in determining communicative function and meaning in early childhood and animal communication has been widely recognized (Fogel & Garvey, 2007; Hinde, 1985; Labov & Labov, 1978). Families often permanently adopt novel words produced by such negotiation, for example, “soda” was [toʊdi]; “thank you” was [taŋko]; “who’s that” was [hu dæ]; and “pacifier” was [pætsi], in the first author’s family, all adopted from infant forms.…”

Section: Background On Negotiation In Infant Babbling and Word Learningmentioning

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Identification of Prelinguistic Phonological Categories

Ramsdell

Oller

Buder

et al. 2012

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose The prelinguistic infant’s babbling repertoire of syllables—the phonological categories that form the basis for early word learning—is noticed by caregivers who interact with infants around them. Prior research on babbling has not explored the caregiver’s role in recognition of early vocal categories as foundations for word learning. In the present work, the authors begin to address this gap. Method The authors explored vocalizations produced by 8 infants at 3 ages (8, 10, and 12 months) in studies illustrating identification of phonological categories through caregiver report, laboratory procedures simulating the caregiver’s natural mode of listening, and the more traditional laboratory approach (phonetic transcription). Results Caregivers reported small repertoires of syllables for their infants. Repertoires of similar size and phonetic content were discerned in the laboratory by judges who simulated the caregiver’s natural mode of listening. However, phonetic transcription with repeated listening to infant recordings yielded repertoire sizes that vastly exceeded those reported by caregivers and naturalistic listeners. Conclusions The results suggest that caregiver report and naturalistic listening by laboratory staff can provide a new way to explore key characteristics of early infant vocal categories, a way that may provide insight into later speech and language development.

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“…This was a diary study made by a linguist parent. As is the case for other diary studies of this period made by linguist parents (e.g., Labov & Labov;1978;Leopold, 1947;M enn, 1983), audio-records are not consistently available for assessing accuracy / reliability for phonetic transcriptions. As such, these data can contribute to our general knowledge of acquisition of BP and provide a basis of comparison for future studies of acquisition of the language with larger groups of children and more rigorous recording methods allowing reliability assessments of transcribed data.…”

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Early Sound Patterns in the Speech of Two Brazilian Portuguese Speakers

Teixeira

Davis

2002

Lang Speech

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Sound patterns in the speech of two Brazilian-Portuguese speaking children are compared with early production patterns in English-learning children as well as English and Brazilian-Portuguese (BP) characteristics. The relationship between production system effects and ambient language influences in the acquisition of early sound patterns is of primary interest, as English and BP are characterized by differing phonological systems. Results emphasize the primacy of production system effects in early acquisition, although even the earliest word forms show evidence of perceptual effects from the ambient language in both BP children. Use of labials and coronals and low and midfront vowels in simple syllable shapes is consistent with acquisition data for this period across languages. However, potential ambient language influences include higher frequencies of dorsals, use of multisyllabic words, and different phone types in syllable-offset position. These results suggest that to fully understand early acquisition of sound systems one must account for both production system effects and perceptual effects from the ambient language.

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The Phonetics of cat and mama

Cited by 45 publications

References 8 publications

Babbling and early speech: continuity and individual differences

Babbling and early speech: continuity and individual differences

Identification of Prelinguistic Phonological Categories

Early Sound Patterns in the Speech of Two Brazilian Portuguese Speakers

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