Vihman, Marilyn orcid.org/0000-0001-8912-4840 and Majorano, Marinella (2017) The role of geminates in infants' early word production and word-form recognition. Journal of Child Language. pp. 1-27. ISSN 0305-0009
Abstract
Infants learning languages with long consonants, or geminates, have been found to ‘overselect’ and ‘overproduce’ these consonants in early words and also to commonly omit the word-initial consonant. A production study with thirty Italian children recorded at 1;3 and 1;9 strongly confirmed both of these tendencies. To test the hypothesis that it is the salience of the medial geminate that detracts attention from the initial consonant we conducted three experiments with 11-month-old Italian infants. We first established baseline word-form recognition for untrained familiar trochaic disyllables and then tested for word-form recognition, separately for words with geminates and singletons, after changing the initial consonant to create nonwords from both familiar and rare forms. Familiar words with geminates were recognized despite the change, words with singletons were not. The findings indicate that a feature occurring later in the word affects initial consonant production and perception, which supports the whole-word phonology model.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
Authors/Creators: |
|
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Cambridge University Press 2016 . This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
Dates: |
|
Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Language and Linguistic Science (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2016 14:29 |
Last Modified: | 04 Dec 2024 00:11 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000915000793 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0305000915000793 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:94578 |
Download
Filename: The_role_of_geminates_ms_in_press.docx
Description: The role of geminates-ms in press