The Acquisition of Syllabic and Word Structure: Individual Differences and Universal Constraints  

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Faingold, Eduardo D.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 12 no. 1 (1990), page 101-113.
Fulltext: 12_01_Faingold.pdf (780.72KB)

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Natural phonological processes, constraints and strategies at the one word stage are investigated in one trilingual, Spanish, Portuguese and Hebrew speaking child (Noam). Concern is with word, syllable and segmental articulation. This child’s phonological and lexical development is contrasted with that of another bilingual English and Hebrew speaking child (Shelli). Two opposite strategies in the application of selected phonological processes were observed: Noam’s maintenance (his data shows a large number of full words, trisyllabic and reduplicated forms) vs Shelli’s reduction(her data shows a small number of full words, a wide use of syllable reduction, and a vocabulary strictly limited to monosyllabic and bisyllabic forms). A universal constraint on word initial - word final consonants seems to be operating, despite the different strategies and despite the multilingual input and acquisition setting. Thus this paper argues for the coexistence of universal processes and individual patternings in early (phonological) development, prior to the period of expansion, when children produce more adult-like versions of the words and a larger number of full words.

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