Trajectories of faithfulness in child-specific phonology

Becker, Michael; Tessier, Anne-Michelle

doi:10.1017/s0952675711000133

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“…In general, it was observed that the phonological acquisition occurred in an ascending way, though with some regressions, as observed in other studies 12,13 . Most regressions occurred in consonants such as /´/, /l/ and /r/ in complex onset and coda.…”

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Modelo de correlações entre consoantes: implicações para a prática clínica

2016

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Purpose: creating a consonant correlation model, considering the syllabic structure of each consonant and showing likely statistical correlations among them. This model will be based on Implicational model of Feature Complexity (IMFC) and it will consider data of typical phonological acquisition. Methods: the phonological systems of 186 children were analyzed. They were students of public kindergarten schools and were aged between one year, six months to five years, eleven months, and had typical language development. The complexity levels of the model were based on the sounds acquired in each age. After, the correlations among the consonants were analyzed, using the statistical significance and the power of correlations as the criteria to create the model. Results: the consonant correlation model was created with nine levels of complexity. The model shows that the less complex sound is /t/ and the more complex is /l/ in the complex onset position. Many strong and moderate correlations were found among the consonants, except for //. The sound with highest number of correlations was /l/ in the simple onset position. Conclusion: the created model pointed many similarities with MICT. It describes details in the typical phonological acquisition and can be a guide to the choice of target sounds in therapy. Keywords: Infant; Preschool; Language Development RESUMO Objetivo: construir um modelo de complexidade entre consoantes conforme a estrutura silábica de cada uma, evidenciando possíveis correlações estatísticas entre elas, baseando-se na estrutura do Modelo Implicacional de Complexidade de Traços (MICT) e utilizando dados de aquisição fonológica típica. Métodos: analisaram-se os sistemas fonológicos de 186 crianças estudantes de escolas municipais de educação infantil com idades entre um ano e seis meses e cinco anos, 11 meses e 29 dias, e desenvolvimento típico de linguagem. Com base nos fonemas adquiridos em cada faixa etária determinaram-se os níveis de complexidade. Após, buscaram-se as correlações entre os fonemas, utilizando como critérios a significância estatística e a força das correlações para criar o modelo. Resultados: o modelo de correlações entre consoantes foi construído com nove níveis de complexidade. O modelo mostra que o fonema menos complexo é o /t/ e o mais complexo é o /l/ na posição de onset complexo. Há várias correlações moderadas e fortes entre os fonemas, exceto para //. O fonema com maior número de correlações foi o /l/ na posição de onset simples. Conclusão: o modelo criado evidenciou muitas semelhanças com o MICT. Ele descreve detalhes da aquisição fonológica típica e pode ser um guia para a escolha dos sons alvo na terapia fonológica.

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2016

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“…These patterns bear some resemblance with well-established facts about cross-linguistic preferences and empirical observations about phonological development. The CV sequence that is generally left intact in our participants' responses is also the most preferred cross-linguistically (Clements, 1990;Clements & Keyser, 1983) and the earliest to appear developmentally (e.g., Becker & Tessier, 2011;Goad & Rose, 2004;Ohala, 1999;Pater, 2009;Salidis & Johson, 1997). Why do these differences arise across syllable components?…”

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On the nature of sonority in spoken word production: Evidence from neuropsychology

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Buchwald²

2013

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“…Moreover, a preference for labial‐initial syllables is attested in child speech in various languages (e.g., MacNeilage and Davis ) and appears to have a biomechanically preferred status in general (Tsuji, Gomez, Medina, Nazzi, and Mazuka ). For additional discussion of constraint induction reflecting child‐specific phonetic pressures, see Inkelas and Rose () and Becker and Tessier ().…”

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“…A final piece of evidence supporting the grammatical status of child speech patterns comes from the robustly documented phenomenon of U-shaped trajectories in phonological development (e.g., Leopold 1939;Leopold 1947;Ferguson and Farwell 1975;MacWhinney 1978;Bowerman 1982;Fikkert 1994;Bernhardt and Stemberger 1998;Rose 2007, 2003;Becker and Tessier 2011;Rose and Brittain 2011;McAllister Byun, 2012). In U-shaped learning, a child is observed to produce a speech target with relatively high accuracy early in development, then shift to a pattern of incorrect production that may be sustained for some time before accuracy again increases.…”

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Motor Influences on Grammar in an Emergentist Model of Phonology

Byun

Tessier

2016

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Any account aiming to provide a comprehensive picture of children's acquisition of speech must consider both the development of the phonological grammar and the maturation of the structures and motor skills used to implement the sounds of a language. Much previous literature has been marked by a tendency to draw sharp demarcations between motor and grammatical influences, or to assert that all of child speech can be reduced to one or the other. This paper argues that it is neither necessary nor desirable to segregate speech‐motor development from grammatical development when modeling speech acquisition, because they are fundamentally intertwined. The paper focuses on bringing together two literatures that have evolved largely independently. The first explores how speech‐motor patterns practiced during babbling come to be disproportionately represented in the lexicon in children's earliest stages of meaningful speech. The second posits that abstract elements of phonology – segments, features, and constraints – can be understood to emerge from generalizations over stored memory traces at a more holistic level. We argue that an emergentist model of phonological learning can be enhanced by incorporating the insight that memory traces of strings that have been heard and produced are encoded more robustly than strings that have only been heard.

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Trajectories of faithfulness in child-specific phonology

Cited by 31 publications

References 45 publications

Modelo de correlações entre consoantes: implicações para a prática clínica

Modelo de correlações entre consoantes: implicações para a prática clínica

On the nature of sonority in spoken word production: Evidence from neuropsychology

Motor Influences on Grammar in an Emergentist Model of Phonology

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