Giulivi, Sara and Whalen, Douglas H. and Goldstein, Louis M. and Nam, Hosung and Levitt, Andrea G. (2011) An Articulatory Phonology account of preferred consonant-vowel combinations. Language Learning and Development, 7 (3). pp. 202-225. ISSN 1547-5441
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Certain consonant/vowel combinations (labial/central, coronal/front, velar/back) are more frequent in babbling as well as, to a lesser extent, in adult language, than chance would dictate. The “Frame then Content” (F/C) hypothesis (Davis & MacNeilage, 1994) attributes this pattern to biomechanical vocal-tract biases that change as infants mature. Articulatory Phonology (AP; Browman and Goldstein 1989) attributes preferences to demands placed on shared articulators. F/C implies that preferences will diminish as articulatory control increases, while AP does not. Here, babbling from children at 6, 9 and 12 months in English, French and Mandarin environments was examined. There was no developmental trend in CV preferences, although older ages exhibited greater articulatory control. A perception test showed no evidence of bias toward hearing the preferred combinations. Modeling using articulatory synthesis found limited support for F/C but more for AP, including data not originally encompassed in F/C. AP thus provides an alternative biomechanical explanation.
| Item Type: | Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article |
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| Subjects: | Linguistics, classics and related subjects > Linguistics Linguistics, classics and related subjects > Linguistics > Phonetics & phonology |
| Department/unit: | Dipartimento formazione e apprendimento / Alta scuola pedagogica |
| Depositing User: | Sara Giulivi |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jan 2016 07:39 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Sep 2023 11:00 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/7096 |
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