Ann M Peters
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 732679 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ann M Peters |
| NOMBRES | Ann M |
| APELLIDO | Peters |
| FIRMA | PETERS A M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Language Typology and the Segmentation Problem in Early Child Language Acquisition
Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1981), pp. 236-248
Phonological changes during the transition from one-word to productive word combination
We investigated developmental changes during the transition from one-word to two-word production, focusing on strategies to lengthen utterances phonologically and to control utterances suprasegmentally. We hypothesized that there is a period of reorganization at the onset of word combinations indicated by decreases in both filler syllables (Fillers) and final syllable lengthening (FSL). The data are from a visually impaired child (Seth) between 1…
Filler syllables
Although it has long been observed that some children incorporate unglossable syllables into their early utterances, it has been difficult to integrate these 'fillers' into theories of language acquisition. Because they straddle boundaries between phonology and morphosyntax, and between pragmatics and lexicon, they do not fit neatly into linguists' notions about 'modules' of language. Fillers have been reported in quite an array of languages, and…
The role of prosody in the acquisition of grammatical morphemes
This paper examines two issues concerning the acquisition of grammatical morphemes: (1) How is the acquisition of grammatical morphemes influenced by prosodic and phonological characteristics of the language being learned? and (2) What sorts of prosodic and phonological properties do grammatical morphemes have that might aid children in applying particular segmentation strategies? To address these issues, we compared the acquisition of grammatica…
The Inter-Nordic Study of Language Acquisition
The typological variation between the Nordic languages offers a “natural laboratory” for the cross-linguistic study of first language acquisition. Based on an on-going inter-Nordic project, the present article discusses research designs for the exploration of this laboratory together with pilot analyses of acquisition data across Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish. On the basis of evidence from longitudinal case studies, from narra…
False Starts and Filler Syllables
Since Brown 1973, the study of the acquisition of the items generally referred to as ‘grammatical morphemes’ has tended to focus on inferring the linguistic and cognitive factors governing the ORDER in which these items reach some designated level of acquisition. What is less often addressed is the PROCESS of acquisition of these common inflections and closed-class functors: how it unfolds, why children learning the same language take such differ…
The transition from optional to required subjects
We propose (contra Hyams, 1986) that the optional subject phenomenon in early child language arises because children have not yet acquired the morphological elements (primarily modals and tense) necessary to distinguish Subject-Taking (ST) verbs (e.g. finite verbs) from their non-Subject-Taking (NST) counterparts (e.g. infinitives). Unaware of this distinction, children are able only to observe that verbs sometimes occur with subjects and sometim…
What Are You Cookin' on a Hot
We consider an anomalous but internally consistent set of WH-questions produced by a 31⁄2-year-old child. They are of theoretical interest because they appear to violate constraints against the movement of constituents out of noun phrases, thus raising questions about the conditions of applicability of such constraints. After giving an account of the probable sources of these questions in several kinds of verbal interactions between the child and…
The Development of Language
The units of language acquisition
Errors in Linguistic Performance
Language Learning Strategies
Two fundamentally different strategies may be employed by very young children learning their first language. The basic assumptions underlying the study of children's language development, however, have provided means for dealing with only one of these strategies: that which proceeds from the parts to the whole (Analytic). This paper reports on a child who evidently proceeded from the whole to the parts (Gestalt) in producing much of his early lan…
Language Learning Strategies
Two fundamentally different strategies may be employed by very young children learning their first language. The basic assumptions underlying the study of children's language development, however, have provided means for dealing with only one of these strategies: that which proceeds from the parts to the whole (Analytic). This paper reports on a child who evidently proceeded from the whole to the parts (Gestalt) in producing much of his early lan…
False Starts and Filler Syllables
Since Brown 1973, the study of the acquisition of the items generally referred to as ‘grammatical morphemes’ has tended to focus on inferring the linguistic and cognitive factors governing the ORDER in which these items reach some designated level of acquisition. What is less often addressed is the PROCESS of acquisition of these common inflections and closed-class functors: how it unfolds, why children learning the same language take such differ…
What Are You Cookin' on a Hot
We consider an anomalous but internally consistent set of WH-questions produced by a 31⁄2-year-old child. They are of theoretical interest because they appear to violate constraints against the movement of constituents out of noun phrases, thus raising questions about the conditions of applicability of such constraints. After giving an account of the probable sources of these questions in several kinds of verbal interactions between the child and…
Language Learning Strategies
Two fundamentally different strategies may be employed by very young children learning their first language. The basic assumptions underlying the study of children's language development, however, have provided means for dealing with only one of these strategies: that which proceeds from the parts to the whole (Analytic). This paper reports on a child who evidently proceeded from the whole to the parts (Gestalt) in producing much of his early lan…
Errors in Linguistic Performance
The units of language acquisition
The Development of Language
What Are You Cookin' on a Hot
We consider an anomalous but internally consistent set of WH-questions produced by a 31⁄2-year-old child. They are of theoretical interest because they appear to violate constraints against the movement of constituents out of noun phrases, thus raising questions about the conditions of applicability of such constraints. After giving an account of the probable sources of these questions in several kinds of verbal interactions between the child and…
The transition from optional to required subjects
We propose (contra Hyams, 1986) that the optional subject phenomenon in early child language arises because children have not yet acquired the morphological elements (primarily modals and tense) necessary to distinguish Subject-Taking (ST) verbs (e.g. finite verbs) from their non-Subject-Taking (NST) counterparts (e.g. infinitives). Unaware of this distinction, children are able only to observe that verbs sometimes occur with subjects and sometim…
False Starts and Filler Syllables
Since Brown 1973, the study of the acquisition of the items generally referred to as ‘grammatical morphemes’ has tended to focus on inferring the linguistic and cognitive factors governing the ORDER in which these items reach some designated level of acquisition. What is less often addressed is the PROCESS of acquisition of these common inflections and closed-class functors: how it unfolds, why children learning the same language take such differ…
The Inter-Nordic Study of Language Acquisition
The typological variation between the Nordic languages offers a “natural laboratory” for the cross-linguistic study of first language acquisition. Based on an on-going inter-Nordic project, the present article discusses research designs for the exploration of this laboratory together with pilot analyses of acquisition data across Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish. On the basis of evidence from longitudinal case studies, from narra…
The role of prosody in the acquisition of grammatical morphemes
This paper examines two issues concerning the acquisition of grammatical morphemes: (1) How is the acquisition of grammatical morphemes influenced by prosodic and phonological characteristics of the language being learned? and (2) What sorts of prosodic and phonological properties do grammatical morphemes have that might aid children in applying particular segmentation strategies? To address these issues, we compared the acquisition of grammatica…
Filler syllables
Although it has long been observed that some children incorporate unglossable syllables into their early utterances, it has been difficult to integrate these 'fillers' into theories of language acquisition. Because they straddle boundaries between phonology and morphosyntax, and between pragmatics and lexicon, they do not fit neatly into linguists' notions about 'modules' of language. Fillers have been reported in quite an array of languages, and…
Phonological changes during the transition from one-word to productive word combination
We investigated developmental changes during the transition from one-word to two-word production, focusing on strategies to lengthen utterances phonologically and to control utterances suprasegmentally. We hypothesized that there is a period of reorganization at the onset of word combinations indicated by decreases in both filler syllables (Fillers) and final syllable lengthening (FSL). The data are from a visually impaired child (Seth) between 1…
Language Typology and the Segmentation Problem in Early Child Language Acquisition
Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1981), pp. 236-248
Linguistics (11 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Language Development and Disorders (8 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 obras) · Language acquisition (3 obras) · Morpheme (3 obras) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (3 obras) · Phonology (3 obras)