Vowel Context Effects on Consonant Repetition in Early Words
| Autor: | Namhee Kim, Barbara L. Davis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Consonant
Linguistics and Language medicine.medical_specialty Speech acquisition Context (language use) Audiology Language Development 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Speech and Hearing Phonetics Vowel medicine Humans Speech 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Child Language Speech error Repetition (rhetorical device) Context effect 05 social sciences American English Speech Perception 0305 other medical science Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 64:40-50 |
| ISSN: | 1558-9102 1092-4388 |
| Popis: | PurposeConsonant repetitions within words are a well-attested speech error pattern in children's early speech acquisition. We investigated the role of intervening vowel context in understanding speech forms containing consonant repetitions in early words. Intrasyllabic consonant–vowel (CV) sequences within consonant–vowel–consonant (CVC) and consonant–vowel–consonant–vowel (CVCV) forms containing consonant repetitions were analyzed to evaluate whether children's lack of independent movement control for the tongue in word-level sequences might contribute to these observed speech patterns.MethodSpontaneous speech data produced by 10 typically developing children learning American English were analyzed longitudinally from the onset of word use to 36 months. Overall patterns and word shape effects for nine CV combinations occurring in their CVC and CVCV word shapes that contained repeated nonadjacent consonants and the intervening vowel were analyzed.ResultsThree CV combinations—coronal-front vowel, labial-central vowel, and dorsal-back vowel—occurred at above-chance levels. Preference for these CV patterns was strong in CVCV but not in CVC word shapes. These CV combinations occurred frequently at all time periods analyzed for CVCV's while decreasing across time for CVC's.ConclusionsAnalysis of intrasyllabic patterns within word forms containing consonant repetitions revealed that consonant repetitions in many early words occurred at above-chance levels in the context of articulatorily compatible vowels. Results suggest that children's production system capacities are an important contributing principle accounting for vowel context effects within word forms containing consonant repetitions during earliest speech acquisition. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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