The child's lexical representation

The ‘ puzzle-puddle-pickle ’ evidence

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10140980
AutoresMarlys A Macken (Stanford University, autor correspondente)
Ano1980
Volume16
Fascículo1
Páginas1-17
Data de publicação1980-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022226700006307
OpenAlexW2136292031
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas36
Referências citadas2

Smith (1973) presents a detailed analysis of his son's phonological development between the ages of two and four. 1 The book is impressive, not only for the care with which the analysis was done but also, and more importantly, for the clarity with which central acquisition issues were stated. The analysis of the child's productions was done in two ways: first as a mapping from the adult system and second as a self-contained system. In his introduction, Smith raises seven issues that any theory of language acquisition must address; one of these concerns the nature of phonological change. Smith states that when changes occur in the child's output, they do so in an ‘across-the-board’ fashion. On the basis of this (and other) evidence, Smith concludes that the child must have the adult surface form as his underlying lexical representation. The implication is clear: the child must thus perceive in an adult-like fashion and the deviance of his/her output is due to the articulatory difficulty of certain sounds and sound sequences (and in some cases to certain formal properties of his mapping system)

CLARITY · Deviance (statistics · Linguistics · Merge (version control · Political science · Representation (politics · Sociology · Sound change · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Law · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development