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Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Yuen, Ivan; Holt, Rebecca; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Learning to use word versus phrase level prosody to identify compounds from lists is thought to be a protracted process, only acquired by 11 years (Vogel & Raimy, 2002). However, a recent study has shown that 5-year-olds can use prosodic cues other than stress for these two structures in production, at least for early-acquired noun-noun…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Cues
Millasseau, Julien; Yuen, Ivan; Bruggeman, Laurence; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2021
While voicing contrasts in word-onset position are acquired relatively early, much less is known about how and when they are acquired in word-coda position, where accurate production of these contrasts is also critical for distinguishing words (e.g., dog vs. dock). This study examined how the acoustic cues to coda voicing contrasts are realized in…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Cues, Articulation (Speech), Foreign Countries
Tang, Ping; Yuen, Ivan; Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Gao, Liqun; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Weak syllables in Germanic and Romance languages have been reported to be challenging for young children, with syllable omission and/or incomplete reduction persisting till age five. In Mandarin Chinese, neutral tone (T0) involves a weak syllable with varied pitch realizations across (preceding) tonal contexts and short duration. The present study…
Descriptors: Syllables, Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Intonation
Yuen, Ivan; Miles, Kelly; Cox, Felicity; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2015
Young children's first attempts at CVC words are often realized with the final consonant being heavily aspirated or followed by an epenthetic vowel (e.g. "cat"/kaet/ realized as [kaet[superscript h]] or [kaet[superscript ?]]). This has led some to propose that young children represent word-final (coda) consonants as an onset-nucleus…
Descriptors: Young Children, Case Studies, Child Language, Syllables
Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2011
Stoel-Gammon (this issue) provides a welcome addition to the phonological acquisition literature, bringing together insights from long-standing and more recent research to address the relationship between the developing phonological system and the developing lexicon. A growing literature on children's early use of words across languages and…
Descriptors: Language Research, Phonology, Vocabulary Development, Cross Cultural Studies
Demuth, Katherine; McCullough, Elizabeth – Journal of Child Language, 2009
Researchers have long been puzzled by children's variable omission of grammatical morphemes, often attributing this to a lack of semantic or syntactic competence. Recent studies suggest that some of this variability may be due to phonological constraints. This paper explored this issue further by conducting a longitudinal study of five…
Descriptors: Syntax, Morphemes, English, Form Classes (Languages)
Demuth, Katherine; McCullough, Elizabeth – Journal of Child Language, 2009
Studies of English and German find that children tend to acquire word-final consonant clusters before word-initial consonant clusters. This order of acquisition is generally attributed to articulatory, frequency and/or morphological factors. This contrasts with recent experimental findings from French, where two-year-olds were better at producing…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech, Phonemes, Phonology
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Dabrowska, Ewa; Demuth, Katherine; Dressler, Wolfgang U.; Kilani-Schoch, Marianne; Echols, Catharine H.; Leonard, Laurence B.; Lleo, Conxita; Lopez-Ornat, Susana; Menn, Lise; Feldman, Andrea; Radford, Andrew; Veneziano, Edy; Vihman, Marilyn May; Velleman, Shelley L. – Journal of Child Language, 2001
Various commentaries are included in response to an article on filler syllables and their status in emerging grammar. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Stages, Generalization, Grammar