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Peer reviewedMacken, Marlys A.; Barton, David – Journal of Child Language, 1980
Reports on a longitudinal study of the acquisition of the voicing contrast in American English word-initial stop consonants as measured by voice-onset time. The rate and nature of the developmental process are discussed in relation to two competing models of phonological acquisition and two hypotheses regarding the skills being learned. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Acquisition
Download full textMcDonald, Geraldine – 1976
The idea of semantic features has taken some force within psychology and a number of research workers have suggested that semantic acquisition is, in some manner, determined by semantic components. This notion has come to be called the "semantic feature hypothesis". An examination of the semantic feature hypothesis was made by testing 80…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedMacari, Nicholas J. – Journal of Phonetics, 1978
Stampe's (1969, 1973) hypotheses regarding innate mental phonological processes are tested against some of the extant data on speech perception. (AM)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Child Language
