Vihman, Marilyn orcid.org/0000-0001-8912-4840, Ota, Mitsuhiko, Keren-Portnoy, Tamar orcid.org/0000-0002-7258-2404 et al. (2 more authors) (2022) Child phonological responses to variegation in adult words:a cross-linguistic study. Journal of Child Language. ISSN 0305-0009
Abstract
Variegation – the presence of more than one supraglottal consonant per word – is a key challenge for children as they increase their expressive vocabulary toward the end of the single-word period. Here we consider the prosodic structures of target words and child forms in English, Finnish, French, Japanese and Mandarin to determine whether children learning these languages respond similarly to the challenge or instead differ in ways related to the phonological structure of the adult language. Based on proportional occurrence of each structure, we find that the word forms of children learning Mandarin and Japanese show more variegation than do those of children learning the European languages, although their target words do not; proportions of reduplication, consonant harmony and single-consonant words also differ by language. We conclude that experience with the structure of the language – and thus representation, as well as immature articulatory skills – shapes children’s responses to variegation.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2022 |
Keywords: | phonological development,Consonant,reduplication,variegation,word production |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Language and Linguistic Science (York) The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Education (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 31 Aug 2022 09:10 |
Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2025 00:47 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000922000393 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0305000922000393 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:190465 |
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