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The book explores the role of phonological templates in early language use, with analyses of children's first words and their adult targets, as well as their later prosodic structures. The book also examines the timing, fading, quantification and function of child phonological templates and the use of templates in adult language.
List of contents
- 1: Perspectives on phonological development
- 2: Whole-word phonology: Historical and theoretical overview
- 3: Building the evidence: From item learning to templates
- 4: First words and prosodic structures: A cross-linguistic perspective
- 5: Phonological templates in development
- 6: Issues around child templates: Timing, fading, quantification, and function
- 7: Relation of child to adult templates, I: Parallels in core grammar
- 8: Relation of child to adult templates, II: Language at play
- 9: Conclusion
- Appendix I: Children and language groups
- Appendix IIa: Chronological list of C's adapted productions
- Appendix IIb: Week-by-week listing of C's adapted productions
- Appendix IIIa: French truncated (selected) forms in -o.
- Appendix IIIb: French adapted forms in -o.
- Appendix IV: French hypocoristics
- Appendix V: Estonian short forms
- Appendix VI: English rhyming compounds
About the author
Marilyn Vihman is Professor of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York, having previously held positions at Stanford and the University of Wales at Bangor. Her research focuses mainly on vocal and perceptual development and word learning in the first two years of life. Her books include Phonological Development: The Origins of Language in the Child (Blackwell, 1996) and its revised edition Phonological Development: The First Two Years (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), and, as co-editor with Tamar Keren-Portnoy, The Emergence of Phonology: Whole-Word Approaches and Cross-Linguistic Evidence (CUP, 2013).
Summary
The book explores the role of phonological templates in early language use, with analyses of children's first words and their adult targets, as well as their later prosodic structures. The book also examines the timing, fading, quantification and function of child phonological templates and the use of templates in adult language.
Additional text
Marilyn May Vihman lays out a career's worth of work on the role of templates in children's phonological and lexical development. The book provides rich historical context and compiles a huge wealth of data in one place. It will be of interest to any student of phonological development.
