Language and Speech articles from June 2006

Language and Speech archives from June 2006

Crosslinguistic perspectives on the development of prosodic words.(Special Issue)
June 1, 2006... Researchers have long known that children's early word productions differ from those of adults, both in the segments and syllables produced (e.g., dog > [da]; banana > ['naene]). Some have proposed that these early segmental/syllabic...

Word-minimality, epenthesis and coda licensing in the early acquisition of English.
June 1, 2006... Abstract Many languages exhibit constraints on prosodic words, where lexical items must be composed of at least two moras of structure, or a binary foot. Demuth and Fee (1995) proposed that children demonstrate early sensitivity to...

Grammar and frequency effects in the acquisition of prosodic words in European Portuguese.
June 1, 2006... Abstract 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...

The acquisition of prosodic word structures in Spanish by monolingual and Spanish-German bilingual children.
June 1, 2006... Abstract This article examines the constraints on Prosodic Word production in Spanish by three monolingual and three Spanish-German bilingual children from the beginning of word production until 2;2. It also considers the relationship...

The relevance of metrical information in early prosodic word acquisition: a comparison of Catalan and Spanish.
June 1, 2006... Abstract This paper focuses on the development of Prosodic Word shapes in Catalan, a language which differs from both Spanish and English in the distribution of PW structures. Of particular interest are the truncations of initial...

Input frequency and word truncation in child Japanese: structural and lexical effects.
June 1, 2006... Abstract 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...