Phonological constraints and overextensions

Elsen, Hilke

doi:10.1177/014272379401404220

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“…This is shown in cross-linguistic data from Laing (forthcoming) in Table 1. [bɔa], produced with a hoarse voice to represent the sound of a crow (Elsen, 1994). She also reports the use of a 'snuffling' sound to represent hares or rabbits;…”

Section: Onomatopoeia In Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A role for onomatopoeia in early language: evidence from phonological development

Laing¹

2019

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Onomatopoeia appear in high quantities in many infants’ earliest words, yet there is minimal research in this area. Instead, findings from the wider iconicity literature are generalised to include onomatopoeia, leading to the assumption that their iconic status makes them inherently learnable, thereby prompting their early production. In this review we bring together the literature on onomatopoeia specifically and iconicity more generally to consider infants’ acquisition from three perspectives: perception, production, and interaction. We consider these findings in relation to Imai and Kita’s (2014) ‘sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis’ to determine whether their framework can account for onomatopoeia alongside other iconic forms.

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Section: Onomatopoeia In Productionmentioning

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A role for onomatopoeia in early language: evidence from phonological development

Laing¹

2019

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“…In many cases Annalena creates an idiosyncratic OW form based on her interpretation of the sound that is produced by a referent; these forms are used as referents when Annalena cannot yet produce the CW form. Elsen (1991Elsen ( , 1994 refers to these idiosyncratic OWs in her analyses, and provides evidence towards the influence of the input on Annalena's OW production, stating that the form wauwau 'woof' was used only by Annalena's grandmother, and never by Elsen herself. Annalena's use of quak 'quack', piepiep 'tweet' and her own interpretation of a crow [bɔa] are declared to be spontaneous and unprompted on the infant's part.…”

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A phonological analysis of onomatopoeia in early word production

Laing

2014

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This article analyses longitudinal diary data from one infant acquiring German to seek a better understanding of the role of onomatopoeia in early language development. Onomatopoeic words (OWs) are traced over time in relation to their corresponding conventional forms (CWs), and an analysis of their phonological transitions is considered in relation to the infant's wider language development. OWs are found to serve as a bootstrapping mechanism on a lexical as well as a phonological level, and a lexical OW 'template' is proposed, which is found to support phonological development throughout the infant's output.

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“…This misselected word, according to Elbers, was well known to the child and had been produced correctly on a recent prior occasion. Importantly, this type of error is not systematic; it does not result from consistencies in the child's misperception of speech or an inability to articulate certain sounds (Elsen, 1994;Schwartz, Leonard, Loeb, & Swanson, 1987). Rather, retrieval errors are nonsystematic and transient.…”

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