FLOCCIA, CAROLINE and NAZZI, THIERRY and DELLE LUCHE, CLAIRE and POLTROCK, SILVANA and GOSLIN, JEREMY (2014) English-learning one- to two-year-olds do not show a consonant bias in word learning. Journal of Child Language, 41 (5). pp. 1085-1114. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000913000287
FLOCCIA, CAROLINE and NAZZI, THIERRY and DELLE LUCHE, CLAIRE and POLTROCK, SILVANA and GOSLIN, JEREMY (2014) English-learning one- to two-year-olds do not show a consonant bias in word learning. Journal of Child Language, 41 (5). pp. 1085-1114. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000913000287
FLOCCIA, CAROLINE and NAZZI, THIERRY and DELLE LUCHE, CLAIRE and POLTROCK, SILVANA and GOSLIN, JEREMY (2014) English-learning one- to two-year-olds do not show a consonant bias in word learning. Journal of Child Language, 41 (5). pp. 1085-1114. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000913000287
Abstract
<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>Following the proposal that consonants are more involved than vowels in coding the lexicon (Nespor, Peña & Mehler, 2003), an early lexical consonant bias was found from age 1;2 in French but an equal sensitivity to consonants and vowels from 1;0 to 2;0 in English. As different tasks were used in French and English, we sought to clarify this ambiguity by using an interactive word-learning study similar to that used in French, with British-English-learning toddlers aged 1;4 and 1;11. Children were taught two CVC labels differing on either a consonant or vowel and tested on their pairing of a third object named with one of the previously taught labels, or part of them. In concert with previous research on British-English toddlers, our results provided no evidence of a general consonant bias. The language-specific mechanisms explaining the differential status for consonants and vowels in lexical development are discussed.</jats:p>
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Language and Linguistics, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jul 2015 10:13 |
Last Modified: | 29 Oct 2024 08:00 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/14250 |