This book provides an extensive overview of research into child production and perception.
It focuses primarily on the first two years of life because, for the majority of children, that …

The early relationship between children's emerging articulatory abilities and their capacity to
process speech input was investigated, following recent studies with English-learning …

Purpose Conventional resource-intensive methods for child phonetic development studies
are often impractical for sampling and analyzing child vocalizations in sufficient quantity. The …

We are fascinated by what words sound like. This fascination also drives us to search for
meaning in sound-thereby contradicting the principle of the arbitrariness of the linguistic …

This book explores the role of phonological templates in early language use from the
perspective of usage-based phonology and exemplar models and within the larger …

This chapter presents new data from first language studies of acquisition, some of them
sociolinguistically informed. We challenge various long-standing ideas about the role of first …

Three well‐established characteristics of child vocal production pose a puzzle: How can we
reconcile its seeming 'universality'with its variability by language of exposure and the …

To what extent do developmental templates, or idiosyncratic child word patterns, reflect (i)
universal tendencies of neurophysiologically grounded production,(ii) perceptually-based …

English was long taken as the model “stress‐timed” language, classically contrasted with the
“syllable‐timing” of languages like French or Spanish. English continues to serve as the …

Whole word phonological patterns (templates) in utterances produced by children with 5p
deletion syndrome are analysed, addressing four questions:(1) Are children with 5p deletion …