Development of singleton consonants in French-speaking children with typical versus protracted phonological development: The influence of word length, word shape and stress

Singleton consonant onset acquisition in monolingual Granada Spanish-speaking preschoolers with typical versus protracted phonological development: Impacts of word structure and feature constraints

“…Individual consonants (matches, mismatches) were also described within their structural contexts (word length, and stress and location of the onset-containing syllable within words) and in terms of their major feature categories. Overall, results replicate findings for other languages, e.g., Bulgarian (Bernhardt et al, 2019), European Portuguese (Ramalho & Freitas, 2018) and French (Bérubé et al, 2020). Results are summarized and discussed in terms of the theoretical framework and previous findings, ending with suggested research and clinical implications.…”

“…Onsets will show higher match levels (TUM, FSM) in shorter (less complex, more frequent structurally) versus longer (more complex, less frequent structurally) words (Ayyad et al, 2016;Bérubé et al, 2020;Mason, 2018);…”

“…Onsets will be significantly more accurate (TUM, FSM) in (salient) stressed versus unstressed syllables, especially initial and internal unstressed syllables, unless affected by anticipatory RAM patterns (Bérubé et al, 2020;Bosch, 2004;Stoel-Gammon & Stemberger, 1994).…”

“…While such charts are potentially useful, on their own they do not necessarily elucidate influences of other aspects of the phonological system on segmental acquisition, i.e., sub-segmental content such as place, manner, or laryngeal features (e.g., Jakobson, 1941Jakobson, /1968 or suprasegmental context, such as syllable or word position for the segment (e.g., Ingram, 1974), word stress or word complexity (Mason, 2018). However, constraints-based nonlinear phonological frameworks (Bernhardt & Stemberger, 1998) facilitate analyses of sub-and suprasegmental factors, and have demonstrated the influence of such factors on segmental acquisition, in, for example, Arabic (Ayyad, Bernhardt & Stemberger, 2016), Bulgarian (Bernhardt, Ignatova, Amoako, Aspinall, Marinova-Todd, Stemberger & Yokota, 2019), English (Mason, 2018), European Portuguese (Ramalho & Freitas, 2018) and French (e.g., Bérubé et al, 2020).…”

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While consonant acquisition clearly requires mastery of different articulatory configurations (segments), sub-segmental features and suprasegmental contexts influence both order of acquisition and mismatch (error) patterns (Bérubé, Bernhardt, Stemberger & Ciocca, 2020). Constraints-based nonlinear phonology provides a comprehensive framework for investigating the impact of sub-and suprasegmental impacts on acquisition (Bernhardt & Stemberger, 1998).

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