Phonological development is sometimes seen as a process of learning sounds, or forming
phonological categories, and then combining sounds to build words, with the evidence …

Two lexical characteristics that have emerged as relevant predictors of spoken word
processing are word frequency and neighborhood density. Word frequencyis the number of …

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 …

Abstract “Radical” templatic phonology is a template-based approach to segmental
phonological representation. The central hypothesis is that the segmental phonological …

Researchers frequently examine the development of the single-word lexicon in the absence
of phonetic data. Yet a large body of literature demonstrates relationships between the …

This paper reports evidence from a longitudinal study in which children's attention to shape
in a laboratory task of artificial noun learning was correlated with a rate shift in noun …

In this paper we address the acquisition of place of articulation (PoA) features in words by
Dutch children. We show that there is a particular developmental pattern, repeated across …

Studies of speech perception and segmentation in the prelinguistic period, early word
production, and patterns of function word omission in early syntax have all recently …

Child language data have usually been considered as external evidence for linguistic
theory, but they have never had much influence on phonological theory. Yet, the central goal …

Laryngeally produced vocalizations termed grunts function communicatively in many
species. The vocalizations and accompanying behavior of 5 human infants videorecorded …