Input-based Phonological Acquisition

Input-based Phonological Acquisition
Author: Tania Zamuner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2004-11-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135885109

This book provides an analysis of two theories of language acquisition: the theory that acquisition is primarily mediated by innate properties of language provided by universal grammar, and the opposing theory that language is acquired based on the patterns in the ambient language. A problem not often considered is that these two theories are confounded because the structures that are frequent across languages are also typically the most frequent within a specific language. In addition, the innate theory of language acquisition is difficult to quantify and qualify. Using cross-linguistic, corpus and experimental approaches, this book attempts to contrast these theories through an examination of the acquisition of word-final consonants in English.

The Emergence of the Speech Capacity

The Emergence of the Speech Capacity
Author: D. Kimbrough Oller
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2000
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135684979

Oller constructs a new infrastructural model of vocal communication systems that permits provocative reconceptualizations of the ways infant vocalizations progress systematically toward speech, insightful comparaisons between..

Emergence of Linguistic Abilities

Emergence of Linguistic Abilities
Author: Frédérique Gayraud
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2009-03-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443806404

This book attempts to address an interrelated set of issues about the emergence of linguistic abilities in the child. The various chapters intend to shed light on a particular and critical period in language development: the first three years of life. It is generally assumed in the field of the ontogeny of language that the child's first years of life are particularly crucial. This period is even sometimes considered as predictive at least in the short term, of the later abilities to communicate. During these first three years, gestures, phonetico-phonological, lexical and morpho-syntactic skills chronologically emerge. The main goal of this book is to address the issue of continuity between the developments of the different language components, by the means of recent findings of experts in each domain. Furthermore, the originality of this selection of chapters is to broaden the scope of the discussion by including papers dealing with related phenomena but from different perspectives such as phylogeny, pathology and animal communication. This book primarily concerns graduate students and researchers in the field of language acquisition but the audience can also include scholars from evolution of language, language pathology, animal communication, ontogeny/phylogeny research fields.

Phonetica

Phonetica
Author: International Society of Phonetic Sciences
Publisher:
Total Pages: 610
Release: 1997
Genre: Phonetics
ISBN:

The Psychology of Language

The Psychology of Language
Author: Trevor A. Harley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780863778674

This comprehensive study of the psychology of language explores how we speak, read, remember, learn and understand language. The author examines each of these aspects in detail.

individual Differences in infancy

individual Differences in infancy
Author: John Colombo
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317784847

The papers presented in this volume, written by active and well- known researchers, discuss experimental research that has validated the importance of infancy in individual development over the age continuum. In addition, a diverse overview section contains informative chapters on conceptual models for individual differences during infancy including: individual differences from the perspective of dynamical systems theory the logic of behavioral genetic designs and their use in the delineation of genetic contributions to individual differences coverage of basic statistical treatments for individual difference data focussing on cluster analytic techniques

The Child's Path to Spoken Language

The Child's Path to Spoken Language
Author: John L. Locke
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 540
Release: 1995
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780674116399

How and why do children go from babbling to words? Locke's answer constitutes a journey through language development, taking in neurological, perceptual, social and linguistic aspects. He describes infant behaviour, as it elicits and structures the stimulation needed for learning meaningful speech.

Speech Motor Control

Speech Motor Control
Author: Sten E. Grillner
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2014-06-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1483190455

Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series, Volume 36: Speech Motor Control covers the papers presented at an interdisciplinary conference on Speech Motor Control, held at the Wenner-Gren Center in Stockholm on May 11 to 12, 1981. The book focuses on the methodologies, approaches, processes, and techniques employed in speech motor control. The selection first offers information on the interdisciplinary challenge of speech motor control and analogies between central motor programs for speech and for limb movements. Discussions focus on regulation of cerebral motor cortex output by afferent input, goal-orientation and voluntary movement, interaction of transcortical and segmental reflexes, plasticity of speech gestures, and the task of the speech motor system. The text then takes a look at speech production mechanisms in aphasia and functional landscapes in the cerebral cortex related to speech, as well as motor errors and phonetic transcription studies and correlational analysis of consonant preferences in infants, languages, and aphasic errors. The publication ponders on functional landscapes in the cerebral cortex related to speech; comment on the partial roles of the cerebral hemispheres for speech; and speech breathing kinematics and mechanism inferences. The text also ponders on the aspects of voice production and motor control, vocal fold kinesiology, and oral mechanoreceptors. The text is a dependable reference for readers interested in speech motor control.

An Emergence Approach to Speech Acquisition

An Emergence Approach to Speech Acquisition
Author: Barbara L. Davis
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2013-07-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135067775

The central assertion in this volume is that the young child uses general skills, scaffolded by adults, to acquire the complex knowledge of sound patterns and the goal-directed behaviors for communicating ideas through language and producing speech. A child’s acquisition of phonology is seen as a product of her physical and social interaction capacities supported by input from adult models about ambient language sound patterns. Acquisition of phonological knowledge and behavior is a product of this function-oriented complex system. No pre-existing mental knowledge base is necessary for acquiring phonology in this view. Importantly, the child’s diverse abilities are used for many other functions as well as phonological acquisition. Throughout, an evaluation is made of the research on patterns of typical development across languages in monolingual and bilingual children and children with speech impairments affecting various aspects of their developing complex system. Also considered is the status of available theoretical perspectives on phonological acquisition relative to an emergence proposal, and contributions that this perspective could make to more comprehensive modeling of the nature of phonological acquisition are proposed. The volume will be of interest to cognitive psychologists, linguistics, and speech pathologists.