Non-Adjacent Consonant Sequence Patterns in English Target Words during the First-Word Period

Autor/inn/en	Aoyama, Katsura; Davis, Barbara L.
Titel	Non-Adjacent Consonant Sequence Patterns in English Target Words during the First-Word Period
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 44 (2017) 5, S.1065-1087 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
Schlagwörter	Infants; English; Vocabulary Development; Sequential Learning; Expressive Language; Language Acquisition; Phonemes; Vowels; Articulation (Speech) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; English language; Englisch; Wortschatzarbeit; Didaktische Sequenzierung; Lernsequenz; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Fonem
Abstract	The goal of this study was to investigate non-adjacent consonant sequence patterns in target words during the first-word period in infants learning American English. In the spontaneous speech of eighteen participants, target words with a Consonant-Vowel-Consonant (C[subscript 1]VC[subscript 2]) shape were analyzed. Target words were grouped into nine types, categorized by place of articulation (labial, coronal, dorsal) of initial and final consonants (e.g. "mom," labial-labial; "mat," labial-coronal; "dog," coronal-dorsal). The results indicated that some consonant sequences occurred much more frequently than others in early target words. The two most frequent types were coronal-coronal (e.g. "dad") and labial-coronal (e.g. "mat"). The least frequent type was dorsal-dorsal (e.g. "cake"). These patterns are consistent with phonotactic characteristics of English and infants' production capacities reported in previous studies. This study demonstrates that infants' expressive vocabularies reflect both ambient language characteristics and their own production capacities, at least for consonant sequences in C[subscript 1]VC[subscript 2] word forms. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01