A lexical advantage in four-year-old children's word repetition.
J Child Lang
; 48(1): 31-54, 2021 01.
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ABSTRACT
This study examined a potential lexicality advantage in young children's early speech production do children produce sound sequences less accurately in nonwords than real words? Children aged 3;3-4;4 completed two tasks a real word repetition task and a corresponding nonword repetition task. Each of the 23 real words had a paired consonant-vowel sequence in the nonword in word-initial position (e.g., 'su' in ['sutkes] 'suitcase' and ['sudrÉs]). The word-initial consonant-vowel sequences were kept constant between the paired words. Previous work on this topic compared different sequences of paired sounds, making it hard to determine if those results were due to a lexical or phonetic effect. Our results show that children reliably produced consonant-vowel sequences in real words more accurately than nonwords. The effect was most pronounced in children with smaller receptive vocabularies. Together, these results reinforce theories arguing for interactions between vocabulary size and phonology in language development.
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Assunto principal:
Percepção da Fala
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Vocabulário
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Fonética
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Linguagem Infantil
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Desenvolvimento da Linguagem
Limite:
Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Child Lang
Ano de publicação:
2021
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Article