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Shatz, Itamar – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Phonological selectivity is a phenomenon where children preselect which target words they attempt to produce. The present study examines selectivity in the acquisition of complex onsets and codas in English, and specifically in the acquisition of biconsonantal (CC) clusters in each position compared to triconsonantal (CCC) clusters. The data come…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, English
Tamasi, Katalin; McKean, Christina; Gafos, Adamantios; Hohle, Barbara – Journal of Child Language, 2019
In a preferential looking paradigm, we studied how children's looking behavior and pupillary response were modulated by the degree of phonological mismatch between the correct label of a target referent and its manipulated form. We manipulated degree of mismatch by introducing one or more featural changes to the target label. Both looking behavior…
Descriptors: Phonology, Child Language, Preferences, Child Behavior
Hoff, Erika; Parra, Marisol – Journal of Child Language, 2011
When Roger Brown selected Adam, Eve and Sarah to be the first three participants in the modern study of child language, one of the criteria was the intelligibility of their speech (Brown, 1973). According to the prevailing view at the time, accuracy of pronunciation was a peripheral phenomenon that had nothing to do with the development of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Correlation, Articulation (Speech), Phonology

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

Hulme, Charles; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Develops a psychologically plausible model of the development of word-naming skills in children in order to verify psychological evidence indicating the importance of children's underlying phonological skills as determinants of the ease with which they learn to read. This model is highly successful in learning the pronunciations of single-syllable…
Descriptors: Child Language, Dyslexia, Language Patterns, Language Skills
Macken, Marlys A. – 1976
Data are presented from one subject (J) that show a gradual development of the complexity of words in terms of syllable structure and degree of phonetic similarity of co-occurring consonants. During the age range of 1;9 to 2;6, J's data show a highly systematic progression of stages, each characterized by fewer restrictions on the number, order,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Consonants, Imitation

Celce-Murcia, Marianne – 1977
This study presents phonological and lexical data describing the speech of a two-year-old acquiring English and French simultaneously. After establishing the child's phonological system(s), four categories of lexical items are described: (1) the child knows and uses both the English and French lexical item; (2) the child is confused by identical…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, English, French
Weeks, Thelma E. – 1978
One of the most remarkable aspects of the babbling of some babies is that it is produced with intonation contours that sound very much like adult sentence melodies. This study reviews the literature and examines longitudinal data collected from seven children. Some of the non-adult-like syntactic uses made of intonation by children for…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infant Behavior, Infants, Intonation
Auger, Julie; Rose, Yvan – 1997
Essays on lexicon and vocabulary development, all in French, address these topics: bilingual lexicon in the context of translation; lexical and conceptual representation in bilinguals; pronouns in "existential" constructions in French and English; configurational functions within grammar; Gustaf Stern's diachronic semantic schema; the…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)