On The Complementary Nature Of Consonant And Vowel Harmony In Child And Adult Language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4168277 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Berg (0000-0001-5895-5457, Universität Hamburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 241-256 |
| Publication date | 2008-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | WORD (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-7956 • E-ISSN: 2373-5112 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00437956.2008.11432588 |
| OpenAlex | W1605603005 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 21 |
There is an intriguing complementary distribution of phonological harmony in child and adult language. Whereas vowel harmony is frequently, and consonant harmony rarely, found in fully-developed phonologies, the opposite is true of developing phonologies. This contrast materializes in the face of a long list of similarities suggesting that harmony in child and adult language is essentially the same process. The following three factors are shown to have a bearing on phonological harmony-ease of articulation, ease of programming and distinctiveness. Ease of programming is claimed to facilitate harmony in general, ease of articulation to favour consonant harmony and distinctiveness to favour vowel harmony. Because the production of consonants requires more highly developed motor skills than that of vowels, children tend to resort to consonant harmony. Because ease of articulation plays a limited role in adult language, the bias introduced by distinctiveness unfolds itself in unrestrained fashion and occasions vowel harmony in adult phonologies
Art · Consonant · Harmony (color · Linguistics · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Phonology · Place of articulation · Vowel · Vowel harmony · Language Development and Disorders · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Handbook of Phonological Theory
Phonology and the development of the lexicon
Phonological harmony as a processing problem
A phonetic analysis of consonantal devoicing in children's speech
Phonological neighbourhoods in the developing lexicon
A metrical template account of children's weak syllable omissions from multisyllabic words
The geometry of phonological features
Aphaeresis in Rapid Speech
A Typology of Consonant Agreement as Correspondence
On the Description of Vowel and Consonant Harmony
Sibilant Harmony in Chumash
Primary Features and Their Enhancement in Consonants
From Babbling to Speech
The Acquisition of Phonology
Prosodic Structure in Young Children's Language Production
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| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |