The Role of Distinctive Features in Children’s Acquisition of Phonology

Paula Menyuk

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This investigation studied the acquisition and proportion of correct usage of consonants by Japanese and American children; the consonant substitutions of children developing normal language and of children with articulation problems; and confusion in adults' recall of consonants. A system of distinctive features (gravity, diffuseness, stridency, nasality, continuancy, and voicing) was used to describe the behavior observed. It was found that features played a hierarchical role in terms of acquisition and proportion of correct usage, as well as in terms of resistance to perceptual and productive confusion. The features also played differing roles depending on the task, the age of the subjects, and their status in learning the sound system of their language.

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1973Temporal coordination of consonants in the speech of children: preliminary data 1975Theories of Phonological Development11The preparation of this chapter benefited directly from work on the Stanford University Child Phonology Project, which is supported by National Science Foundation grants GS 2320 and GS 30962, for which grateful acknowledgement is made. We also express our appreciation for the work of Linda Kay Brown, who prepared the Bibliography. The Bibliography, in addition to listing those references used in text citations, includes an additional list that endeavors to provide a well-balanced basic bibliography on child phonology. For a more recent (but briefer) annotated bibliography, see Macken, M. L., Child phonology, Linguistic Reporter, 1974, 16(10), 9–12.1992On the lawfulness of change in phonetic inventories 2011A study of the phonological structure and representation of first words in Arabic 1983Development of Speech Production: Perspectives from Natural and Perturbed Speech 1976Syllabic structure and the acquisition of consonants: The great conspiracy in word formation

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