LING 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Consonant Cluster, 18 Months, Speech Perception
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A number of phonological processes in early speech (from age 1 to 3) are observed cross-linguistically (i. e. , regardless of the language being acquired) The existence of such processes means that if the child is doing similar things in both languages, it might be due to common (universal) phonological processes, rather than reflecting one mixed phonological system. In this case, the observation is no longer evidence in favor of the ulsh. It is compatible with it, but it is just as compatible with the dlsh. It therefore cannot be used to distinguish between the two hypotheses. The least marked syllable (cv meaning no language has no cv syllables) is reflected in children"s early phonologies: Reduplications: the stressed syllable is reduplicated in bi-tri-syllabic words: Cross-linguistically, substitutions tend to favor the optimal syllable, whose onset is a stop. Fronting: moving forwards a sound"s place of articulation. Example: a child that says torn" instead of corn".
