Two routes to language: stylistic variation in one child

Elsen, Hilke

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“…For the first component of the study, it was hypothesized that creative sentences would be made based on PL rather than from scratch in the initial stages ofSLA. This hypothesis reflects earlier fmdings from previous PL studies in both L I and L2 contexts, which observed the trace of PL analysis in creative language (Elsen, 1996;Itoh & Hatch, 1978;Thai, Bates, Zappia, & Oroz, 1996;Ventriglia, 1982;Vihman, 1982;Wong Fillmore, 1976;Yorio, 1980).…”

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The Role of Prefabricated Language in Young Children's Second Language Acquisition

Perera

2001

Bilingual Research Journal

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The Role of Prefabricated Language in Young Children's Second Language Acquisition

Perera

2001

Bilingual Research Journal

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“…However, deferred imitation is helpful when new constructions are not yet mastered or when in an unstable language situation, such as when learning a second language or a Creole (Elsen, 1996;Youssef, 1994).…”

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The role of dialogue in the ontogeny and phylogeny of early symbol combinations: A cross-species comparison of bonobo, chimpanzee, and human learners

Gillespie-Lynch¹,

Greenfield²,

Lyn

2011

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What are the evolutionary and developmental origins of linguistic creativity? Crossspecies comparison of the clade consisting of bonobo, chimpanzee, and human suggests that creative word combinations arise from conversation. Analysis of conversational data shows that novel symbol combinations are initially dependent upon conversational input -through the processes of deferred imitation and joint construction -for a bonobo and a chimpanzee exposed to a humanly devised symbol system, as well as for a human child. In all three species, reliance on conversational input for novel symbol combinations fades with development, as novel symbol combinations come to be constructed more independently. These findings resolve the controversy between the

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“…Disyllables dominate the early lexicon of children acquiring most of the other languages in which early word phonology has been extensively investigated, through either diary or observational studies (Estonian, Finnish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish, Welsh). The Germanic languages generally may constitute exceptions, as monosyllables appear to be the most common early word form in Dutch (e.g., Elbers and Ton 1985) and German (Leopold 1939;Elsen 1996) as well as English; for Swedish our data show that monoand disyllabic early word forms are in close balance. Table 1 indicates proportions of word targets of di¤ering lengths in a crosslinguistic sample of early word data, with 3-25 children represented in each language group.…”

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“…) A developmental progression can thus characteristically be tracked in longitudinal studies of individual infants, from relatively accurate (but highly constrained) earliest word forms to systematically adapted (and thus sometimes less accurate but wider ranging) later forms. To illustrate this progression Table 6 presents data from a case study of a child acquiring German in a monolingual context (Elsen 1996). Here and in what follows we will distinguish the first words, which we term ''selected'' (these are the early words in which ''something vaguely systematic .…”

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Abstract''Radical'' templatic phonology is a template-based approach to segmental phonological representation. The central hypothesis is that the segmental phonological structure of words is represented as language-specific phonotactic templates, in the sense used in the developmental literature. Template-based organization of the early lexicon has been identified in children acquiring several di¤erent languages. It is the result of a usage-based abstracting or ''induction'' process based on both babbling practice (phonetic production) and input experience with specific adult phonological patterns. The resulting templates thus constitute patterns that reconcile (or ''adapt'') the model provided by target words with the child's own phonetic repertoire of syllables or word shapes -typically extending or building on the forms initially ''selected'' for first word production, in which adult and child forms show a close match. In adult phonology segment categoriesnatural classes, or features -are best defined in terms of their occurrence in positions in the templates in individual languages, not as independent universal categories. After reviewing the status of segment categories and their phonetic basis in contemporary phonological theory we present crosslinguistic evidence of pervasive variation in both phonetic realization and phonological distribution patterns, evidence that supports the template construct.

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Two routes to language: stylistic variation in one child

Cited by 17 publications

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The Role of Prefabricated Language in Young Children's Second Language Acquisition

The Role of Prefabricated Language in Young Children's Second Language Acquisition

The role of dialogue in the ontogeny and phylogeny of early symbol combinations: A cross-species comparison of bonobo, chimpanzee, and human learners

Phonological Development

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