Word length in Finnish  

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Kunnari, Sari

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 22 no. 2 (Jun. 2002), page 119-135.
Fulltext: First Language-2002-Kunnari-119-35.pdf (939.52KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/FIL/22 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This study examines the phonological form of ten Finnish speaking children's productive vocabulary in tht: period of transition into speech, with primary focus on the number of syllables in a word. The results showed that Finnish children produced relatively few monosyllables and a large number of disyllables in their early words. This seemed to reflect the predominance of disyllabic target words over monosyllabic ones in Finnish. Furthermore, it appeared that the reduction of disyllabic words was very uncommon, whereas polysyllabic words were considerably more often deformed. Finally, the polysyllabic words were quite often truncated in such a way that they fitted a trochaic pattern, which may partly be due to the fact that primary word stress in Finnish falls on the first syllable. Additionally, the segmental content of the target word and the use of a favourite template may have an effect on the selection of syllables. Thus, the present results suggest that the target language affects the syllabicity of children's early word productions and that differences in the linguistic features of the input may influence the strategies that children use when producing their first words.

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