The acquisition of the stop-fricative contrast in perception and production

Altvater‐Mackensen, Nicole; Fikkert, Paula

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2010.02.010

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“…The appearance of the target feature of manner of articulation first in initial position is in line with previous findings (cf. Altvater-Mackensen & Fikkert, 2010), and also with distributional characteristics observed in typically developing Hungarian-speaking boys acquiring /e/. However, this finding is contrary to that reported in Gildersleeve-Neumann et al (2000) where affricates were predominantly produced in final position.…”

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Inter-word variability of Hungarian affricates /ʦ, ʧ/ in the speech of monolingual children with and without language disorders

Tar

2014

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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This study focuses on the characteristics of inter-word variability (IWV) with respect to two Hungarian affricates (/ʦ, ʧ/) produced by children with typical language development (children with TD) aged 3;0-5;11, and those with primary expressive language disorders (children with LD) with the mean age of 6;7. IWV is described in terms of frequency of occurrence, the segments realised in place of the targets and the error patterns resulting in variable production. Findings revealed that variability is characteristic of the production of /ʧ/ in younger children with TD, and of both affricates in children with LD. Beside some similarities, children with TD and those with LD differed from each other in the way in which variable productions emerged. Children with TD committed errors typical of their age, and their IWV mostly reflected developmental changes. Children with LD, however, demonstrated some indicators of phonological disorders such as the persistence of normal simplifications and chronological mismatch.

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Section: Error Patterns In Children With Language Disorderscontrasting

confidence: 91%

Inter-word variability of Hungarian affricates /ʦ, ʧ/ in the speech of monolingual children with and without language disorders

Tar

2014

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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“…Thus, they noticed the fricative-to-stop change but not the reverse stop-to-fricative change. A second experiment confirmed that 14-month-olds could detect the acoustic change from /paap/ to /faap/ in a simpler discrimination task that did not involve learning an object/label mapping (Altvater-Mackensen & Fikkert, 2010). However, discrimination was tested in just one direction and thus did not provide data to address perceptual asymmetry.…”

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“…However, asymmetries are reported in research exploring early word recognition and word learning abilities in toddlers who are in the 2nd year of life. Altvater-Mackensen and Fikkert (2010) reported an asymmetry when they tested Dutch-learning 14-month-olds in the switch task using the minimal-pair non-words /paap/ and /faap/, which feature the native Dutch /p-f/ contrast. The switch task is a standard procedure for assessing associative word learning by measuring the ability to map a novel spoken label with a novel visual object (e.g., Stager & Werker, 1997).…”

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The phonetic landscape in infant consonant perception is an uneven terrain

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Polka

2016

Cognition

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Previous research revealing universal biases in infant vowel perception forms the basis of the Natural Referent Vowel (NRV) framework (Polka & Bohn, 2011). To explore the feasibility of extending this framework to consonant manner perception, we investigated perception of the stop vs. fricative consonant contrast /b/-/v/ to test the hypothesis that young infants will display a perceptual bias grounded in the acoustic-phonetic properties of these sounds. We examined perception of stop-initial /bas/ and fricative-initial /vas/ syllables in English-learning and French-learning 5- to 6-month-olds. The /b/ and /v/ sounds distinguish words in English and French but have different distributional patterns; in spoken English /b/ occurs more frequently than /v/ whereas in spoken French /v/ occurs more frequently than /b/. A perceptual bias favoring /b/ over /v/ emerged in two experiments. In Experiment 1, a directional asymmetry was observed in discrimination; infants noticed when /vas/ changed to /bas/ but not when /bas/ changed to /vas/. In Experiment 2, a robust listening preference favoring stop-initial /bas/ was evident in responses from the same infants. This is the first study to show a perceptual bias related to consonant manner and to directly measure a consonant perception bias within the same infants. These data encourage further efforts to extend the NRV principles to perception of consonant manner. These findings indicate that we need to reform our view of infant speech perception to accommodate the fact that both discrimination abilities and biases shape speech perception during infancy.

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“…Other instances of children acquiring fricatives in coda before onset position have been reported by Farwell (1976), Ferguson (1978), Ingram et al (1980), Stoel-Gammon & Cooper (1984), Stoel-Gammon (1985), Leonard & McGregor (1991), Dinnsen (1996), Velleman (1996), Stites et al (2004) and Dinnsen & Farris-Trimble (2008). It is by no means the case that all children acquire coda fricatives before onset fricatives, and indeed, the reverse preference has also been documented (Rvachew & Andrews 2002, Altvater-Mackensen & Fikkert 2010. Nevertheless, it is conventionally accepted that postvocalic fricatives have a favoured status in phonological development (Edwards 1979, Kent 1982, Velleman 2002.…”

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A gestural account of a child-specific neutralisation in strong position

Byun

2011

Phonology

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Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0952675711000297How to cite this article: Tara McAllister Byun (2011). A gestural account of a child-specic neutralisation in strong position. Phonology, 28, pp 371-412The child-specific phenomenon of preferential neutralisation in initial position, which reverses a positional bias attested across adult grammars, represents a long-standing problem for formal models of developmental phonology. In a phonetically based model of phonology, child-specific phonological patterns may emerge as the consequence of physical differences between child and adult speech. This paper presents new case-study data suggesting that a child-specific pattern of fricative neutralisation in initial position has its roots in children's articulatory limitations. Coarticulated fricative and vowel gestures are shown to require independent control of the tongue and jaw, known to be problematic for developing speakers. Substitution errors affecting fricatives are analysed as a phonologised reflex of this phonetic pressure to avoid overlapping vowel and fricative gestures. The positional asymmetry emerges as the consequence of the differing degrees of gestural overlap permitted in syllable-initial vs. syllable-final position, as encoded in the framework of Articulatory Phonology (Browman & Goldstein 1986).

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The acquisition of the stop-fricative contrast in perception and production

Cited by 36 publications

References 36 publications

Inter-word variability of Hungarian affricates /ʦ, ʧ/ in the speech of monolingual children with and without language disorders

Inter-word variability of Hungarian affricates /ʦ, ʧ/ in the speech of monolingual children with and without language disorders

The phonetic landscape in infant consonant perception is an uneven terrain

A gestural account of a child-specific neutralisation in strong position

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