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Direct linkSaaristo-Helin, Katri – Language and Speech, 2009
This study applies the Phonological Mean Length of Utterance measurement (PMLU; Ingram & Ingram, 2001; Ingram, 2002) to the data of five children acquiring Finnish and evaluates their phonological development longitudinally at four different age points: 2;0, 2;6, 3;0, and 3;6. The children's results on PMLU and related measures are discussed…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Phonology, Individual Differences, Followup Studies
Song, Jae Yung; Demuth, Katherine – Language and Speech, 2008
Children's early word productions often differ from the target form, sometimes exhibiting vowel lengthening when word-final coda consonants are omitted (e.g., "dog" /d[open o]g/ [arrow right] [d[open o]:]). It has typically been assumed that such lengthening compensates for a missing prosodic unit (a mora). However, this study raises the…
Descriptors: Speech, Phonetics, Vowels, Phonetic Analysis
Christophe, Anne; Millotte, Severine; Bernal, Savita; Lidz, Jeffrey – Language and Speech, 2008
This paper focuses on how phrasal prosody and function words may interact during early language acquisition. Experimental results show that infants have access to intermediate prosodic phrases (phonological phrases) during the first year of life, and use these to constrain lexical segmentation. These same intermediate prosodic phrases are used by…
Descriptors: Nouns, Syntax, Infants, Language Processing
Crain, Stephen – Language and Speech, 2008
Child and adult speakers of English have different ideas of what "or" means in ordinary statements of the form "A or B". Even more far-reaching differences between children and adults are found in other languages. This tells us that young children do not learn what "or" means by watching how adults use "or". An alternative is to suppose that…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Research, Semantics, Child Language
Ota, Mitsuhiko – Language and Speech, 2006
Recent research indicates that the statistical properties of the input have an impact on the prosodic shape of young children's word production. However, it is still not clear whether the effects of input statistics emerge from the frequency of prosodic structures or the frequency of individual lexical items. This issue is investigated in this…
Descriptors: Japanese, Young Children, Males, Child Language
Vigario, Marina; Freitas, Maria Joao; Frota, Sonia – Language and Speech, 2006
This paper investigates the acquisition of prosodic words in European Portuguese (EP) through analysis of grammatical and statistical properties of the target language and child speech. The analysis of grammatical properties shows that there are solid cues to the prosodic word (PW) in EP, and the presence of early word-based phonology in child…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Acquisition, Portuguese, Suprasegmentals
