The longitudinal development of clusters in French

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20366453
AutoresKatherine Demuth (0000-0003-3884-8886, Brown University, autor correspondente), Elizabeth A Mccullough (Brown University), ELIZABETH MCCULLOUGH
Ano2009
Volume36
Fascículo2
Páginas425-448
Data de publicação2009-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Child Language (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0305000908008994
PMID18937877
OpenAlexW2152857318
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas33

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 word-initial than word-final clusters (Demuth & Kehoe, 2006). The purpose of the present study was to examine French-speaking children's longitudinal acquisition of clusters to determine if these results replicate developmentally. Analysis of spontaneous speech productions from two French-speaking children between one and three years confirmed the earlier acquisition of initial clusters, even when sonority factors were controlled. The findings suggest that French-speaking children acquire complexity at the beginnings of words before complexity appears word-finally. The role of frequency, morphological, structural and input factors is discussed

Consonant · Consonant cluster · Developmental psychology · German · Language acquisition · Language development · Linguistics · Phonetics · Phonology · Phonotactics · Sonority hierarchy · Vowel · Language Development and Disorders · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development