The Production of Minimal Words: A Longitudinal Case Study of Phonological Development

“…Take for example Salidis and Johnson (1997), whose goal was to evaluate a child's prosodic development with respect to the parameters proposed for prosodic development in Dutch (Fikkert 1994). Because part of their interest was to assess Fikkert's claim that the first codas produced are obstruents, and that vowel length is first contrastive before sonorant codas, Salidis & Johnson analysed a single child's coda productions in terms of segmental class.…”

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Input-based Phonological Acquisition

Zamuner¹

2004

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“…In a perceptual study, Sato et al (2010) found that Japanese infants were sensitive to vowel quality distinctions at 4 months, but could not distinguish vowel length contrasts until 9.5 months. Speech production studies have found that vowel quality contrasts are acquired early (Templin, 1957;Stoel-Gammon and Herrington, 1990;Salidis and Johnson, 1997), with Templin (1957) reporting 93% correct vowel production for American Englishspeaking children by the age of three. However, few studies have specifically examined the acquisition of vowel quantity contrasts (i.e., phonemic vowel length).…”

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Three-year-olds' production of Australian English phonemic vowel length as a function of prosodic context

Yuen

Cox

Demuth

2014

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Durational contrasts are used not only to signal phrasal boundaries and focused constituents, but also to make phonemic distinctions. Boundary and focus effects can therefore interact with phonemic length contrasts, presenting a challenge for learners. Boundary effects are most clearly seen in the syllable rhyme, where the nucleus and coda are longer in utterance-final compared to utterance-medial position, the magnitude of lengthening diminishing leftward from the end of the word. In the case of focus, where the nucleus and coda are also lengthened, the magnitude of lengthening diminishes rightwards toward the end of the word. The goal of this paper was therefore to compare productions of the phonemic vowel length contrast /AE+/ vs /AE/ in adults and 3-yr-old children learning Australian English in the face of competing demands from boundary and focus lengthening. The results showed that the children maintain the /AE+/ vs /AE/ contrast across prosodic contexts. They are also able to implement an adult-like pattern of boundary-related lengthening, but are still developing focus-related lengthening. The findings suggest that these 3-yr-olds have good command of the phonemic vowel length contrast, but are still fine-tuning language-specific aspects of temporal organization (i.e., the vowel-coda trading relationship) within the rhyme.

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The Production of Minimal Words: A Longitudinal Case Study of Phonological Development

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Three-year-olds' production of Australian English phonemic vowel length as a function of prosodic context

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