The Emergence of Phonology

Whole-word Approaches and Cross-linguistic Evidence

Marilyn M. Vihman, Tamar Keren-Portnoy

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780521762342
• eBook ISBN:
  9781107438880
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Phonetics & Phonology
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

How well have classic ideas on whole-word phonology stood the test of time? Waterson claimed that each child has a system of their own; Ferguson and Farwell emphasized the relative accuracy of first words; Menn noted the occurrence of regression and the emergence of phonological systematicity. This volume brings together classic texts such as these with current data-rich studies of British and American English, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French, Japanese, Polish and Spanish. This combination of classic and contemporary work from the last thirty years presents the reader with cutting-edge perspectives on child language by linking historical approaches with current ideas such as exemplar theory and usage-based phonology, and contrasting state-of-the-art perspectives from developmental psychology and linguistics. This is a valuable resource for cognitive scientists, developmentalists, linguists, psychologists, speech scientists and therapists interested in understanding how children begin to use language without the benefit of language-specific innate knowledge.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• 1 Introduction: the emergence of phonology: whole-word approaches, cross-linguistic evidence
• Part I The current framework
• 2 Phonological development: toward a “radical” templatic phonology
• Part II Setting papers
• 3 Child phonology: a prosodic view
• 4 Words and sounds in early language acquisition
• 5 Developmental reorganization of phonology: a hierarchy of basic units of acquisition
• 6 Development of articulatory, phonetic, and phonological capabilities
• Part III Cross-linguistic studies
• 7 One idiosyncratic strategy in the acquisition of phonology
• 8 Phonological reorganization: a case study
• 9 How abstract is child phonology? Towards an integration of linguistic and psychological approaches
• 10 Beyond early words: word template development in Brazilian Portuguese
• 11 Templates in French
• 12 The acquisition of consonant clusters in Polish: a case study
• 13 Geminate template: a model for first Finnish words
• 14 Influence of geminate structure on early Arabic templatic patterns
• 15 Lexical frequency effects on phonological development: the case of word production in Japanese
• Part IV Perspectives and challenges
• 16 A view from developmental psychology
• 17 Challenges to theories, charges to a model: the Linked-Attractor model of phonological development
• References for reprinted papers
• Index