Some aspects of child phonology in imitative and spontaneous speech
- 1 October 1978
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Child Language
- Vol. 5 (3) , 403-415
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900002075
Abstract
Child phonologists have made varying assumptions concerning the nature of phonological characteristics of children's imitative utterances and their relationship to the characteristics of spontaneous utterances. This study examined this relationship in children in early Stage I. A task was devised which permitted an inspection of children's unsolicited imitations of nonsense words reflecting syllabic shapes and consonants in and out of the child's phonological system. The results are discussed with respect to production constraints, phonological idioms, and selection and avoidance rules operative in imitative speech during this period of development. The findings indicated that while these imitative utterances were subject to the same production constraints they were not subject to the same selection and avoidance rules operative in spontaneous speech.Keywords
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