Phonology in infancy and early childhood: implications for theories of language learning

SL Velleman, MM Vihman - Phonology in context, 2007 - Springer
Abstract Jakobson (1941/1968) proposed that:(i) infants babble the sounds of all
languages;(ii) there is discontinuity between babbling and first words; and (iii) phonemes …

Communication of oral deaf and normally hearing children at 36 months of age

JG Nicholas, AE Geers - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 1997 - ASHA
Eighteen orally educated deaf and 18 normally hearing 36-month-old children were
observed in a play session with their mother. Communicative behavior of the child was …

Vocalizations of one-year-olds

RD Kent, HR Bauer - Journal of Child Language, 1985 - cambridge.org
Mother–infant interactions were recorded for five dyads in a home environment. This report
describes the vocalizations produced when the infants were 13 months old. Data are …

Productive phonology and phonological awareness in preschool children

PE Webster, AS Plante - Applied Psycholinguistics, 1995 - cambridge.org
This article reports on a longitudinal examination of the relationship between productive
phonological ability and phonological awareness in children under 6 years of age. This …

Characteristics of speech errors produced by children with and without delayed phonological awareness skills

S Rvachew, PY Chiang, N Evans - 2007 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the types of
speech errors that are produced by children with speech-sound disorders and the children's …

Phonological acquisition of Turkish children: implications for phonological disorders

S Topbas - European Journal of Disorders of Communication, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
The study reported describes the phonological rules typical of normal development of
Turkish-speaking children. The processes identified include: reduplication, syllable deletion …

Acoustic investigations of cross-linguistic variability in babbling

B de Boysson-Bardies, L Sagart, P Halle… - Precursors of Early …, 1986 - Springer
In the past ten years, the emergence of speech in infants has been investigated in the
framework of theories regarding the capacities underlying speech as part of the biological …

Speech timing of phonologically disordered children: voicing contrast of initial and final stop consonants

HW Catts, PJ Jensen - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1983 - ASHA
Speech timing of nine phonologically disordered and nine normally developing children was
investigated for the voicing contrasts of word-initial and word-final stop consonants …

Syllabic and phonetic structure of infants' early words

H Winitz, OC Irwin - Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1958 - ASHA
The purpose of this article is to report an analysis of three aspects of infant speech, namely,
the syllabic structure, the phonetic structure and the vowel and consonant composition of …

Regularities in abnormal child phonology

DK Oller - Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1973 - ASHA
This paper reports conclusions from a study which attempted to determine the usefulness of
applying generative notational conventions to a phonology of sound substitutions of …