The Phonology of an English-Speaking Child

Phonetic evidence for phonological structure in syllabification

“…Recall from the data in (10) that Mollie's voiceless stops are transcribed by Holmes (1927) as long. While geminates are disfavoured at edges cross-linguistically, length as final release is exactly as expected if these 'geminates' are syllabified as onset-nuclear strings, as in (15b): length is audible precisely because the consonant is released as a nucleus.…”

“…The child data in this paper come from the following sources: Mollie (Holmes 1927), Hildegard (Leopold 1939), Jacob (Menn 1978), Lasan (Fey and Gandour 1982), Scott (collected by the first author). All data are transcribed according to the conventions used by the particular author(s) with one exception: final aspiration is represented with a superscript [h] where Leopold uses an apostrophe.…”

Phonological rules in young children

“…(2) (a) adult pronounced form: ( The difference between (zb) and (2c) can be exemplified with the following forms taken from Holmes (1927) Here, the child is using, on occasion, the diminutive ending such as in the word kitty. There are other cases where this is generalized to other forms that typically do not take it, such as bib and walk.…”

“…(2) (a) adult pronounced form: (APF) The difference between (zb) and (2c) can be exemplified with the following forms taken from Holmes (1927) of a girl at 1J6. 1…”

A Case Study of Phonological Development in Language Delayed Twins Not Enrolled in Therapy

“…Such strategies discussed in the literature include the selection or avoidance of certain sounds (Farwell, 1977, Ferguson, 1975a, Holmes, 1927Ingram, 1978;Leopold, 1947;Menn, 1976;Velten, 1943). In fact, some researchers have argued that early lexical selections may be, in part, phonologicallybased (Vihman, 1981).…”