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Cychosz, Margaret; Mahr, Tristan; Munson, Benjamin; Newman, Rochelle; Edwards, Jan R. – Child Development, 2023
To learn language, children must map variable input to categories such as phones and words. How do children process variation and distinguish between variable pronunciations ("shoup" for "soup") versus new words? The unique sensory experience of children with cochlear implants, who learn speech through their device's degraded…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Language, Pronunciation, Assistive Technology
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Vihman, Marilyn May; DePaolis, Rory A.; Davis, Barbara L. – Child Development, 1998
Analyzed vocalizations/verbalizations from children acquiring English or French in later single-word period to identify trochaic bias. Found that neither language's vocalizations were exclusively trochaic. French/English differences in iambic productions and acoustic realization of accent were traceable to adult input. Distribution of trochaic and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, English, French
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Klein, Robert P. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Imitation