Chapter published in:
The Development of Prosody in First Language AcquisitionEdited by Pilar Prieto and Núria Esteve-Gibert
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 23] 2018
► pp. 165–184
Prosodic phonology in acquisition
A focus on children’s early word productions
Margaret Kehoe | University of Geneva
This chapter investigates how the theory of prosodic phonology has
been applied to child language data, focusing on children’s early
words. First, we consider early accounts of prosodic structure
development in which the tools of prosodic phonology were used to
explain the shape of children’s word productions. We then go on to
consider later accounts in which factors apart from prosodic
structure, such as the frequency of input forms, perceptual bias,
and segmental factors, have been integrated into recent models.
Referring to findings on a wide range of languages (e.g., Spanish,
Catalan, Portuguese, Hebrew, Greek, and Japanese) we examine support
for the minimal word, a bimoraic constraint on word production, and
compare prosodic structure development across different groups of
languages.
Published online: 24 May 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.23.09keh
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.23.09keh
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