Optimality theory and assessment of developing and disordered phonologies
Optimality theory (OT) is a comparatively recent linguistic theory which has been introduced in the early 1990s. OT's description of children's error patterns as patterns that are derived from a hierarchy of conflicting universal constraints has much ...
Froogh Shooshtaryzadeh
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Phonological awareness of children with developmental dysphasia and children with typical language development [PDF]
Phonological awareness is the ability of phonological processing of words. Children with developmental dysphasia manifest interference in the development of phonological abilities vital for the development of other language skills.
Čolić Gordana
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Enhancing the Early Literacy Development of Children at Risk for Reading Difficulties [PDF]
This paper reviews the dynamic and interactive links between the development of children’s language phonological awareness, and reading. Some of the key issues explored are procedures to enhance children’s language development, decoding and word ...
Fielding-Barnsley, Ruth, Hays, Ian
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The Distribution of Talker Variability Impacts Infants’ Word Learning
Infants struggle to apply earlier-demonstrated sound-discrimination abilities to later word learning, attending to non-constrastive acoustic dimensions (e.g., Hay et al., 2015), and not always to contrastive dimensions (e.g., Stager & Werker, 1997 ...
Carolyn Quam, LouAnn Gerken, Sara Knight
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From phonetics to phonology : The emergence of first words in Italian [PDF]
This study assesses the extent of phonetic continuity between babble and words in four Italian children followed longitudinally from 0; 9 or 0; 10 to 2;0-two with relatively rapid and two with slower lexical growth. Prelinguistic phonetic characteristics,
Keren-Portnoy, Tamar +2 more
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Cross-linguistic Comparison of Phonotactic Development
The acquisition of phonotactics has not been studied as commonly as other aspects of children's development. A study was carried out on normally developing Maltese speaking children to collate a phonological development profile.
Helen Grech
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Phonological awareness, verbal working memory and rapid automatic naming as indicators of vocabulary development in preschool children [PDF]
Introduction. According to the lexical restructuring model, the development of vocabulary initiates the development of phonological representations.
Ječmenica Nevena R. +1 more
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The acquisition of Sign Language: The impact of phonetic complexity on phonology [PDF]
Research into the effect of phonetic complexity on phonological acquisition has a long history in spoken languages. This paper considers the effect of phonetics on phonological development in a signed language. We report on an experiment in which nonword-
Bernhardt B. H. +38 more
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Learning to read changes the brain language system. Phonological processing is the language domain most crucial for reading, but it is still unknown how reading acquisition modifies the neural phonological network in children who either develop dyslexia ...
Magdalena Łuniewska +9 more
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Between-word junctures in early multi-word speech [PDF]
Most children aged 1;6 to 2;0 begin to use utterances of two words or more. It is therefore important for child phonologists to consider the development of phonetic and phonological phenomena that characterize connected speech.
Newton, C., Wells, B.
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