LIN101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Velar Nasal, Burping, Speech Disorder
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Early phonetic development: newborns, non-speech noises, crying, cooing, burping, 2-4 months, cooing more socially. In response to others or situations: vowels, consonants, 4-6 months, vocal play, more consonants and vowels, laughter, 6-9 months, canonical babbling, not real words, the same cross linguistically (in different languages, cv-cv syllables (duplicated, 9-12 months. Gagaga" dadada": more variegated babbling, more specific to the language they will speak, proto-words. March 2 2017: during all this time, infants are getting to know their vocal tracts, they must learn how to use them to make certain sounds, trial and error. In english, [t] is acquired before [k: [t] is more frequent than [k] In japanese, [k] is acquired before [t: [k] is more frequent than [t] 2009 patterns of crying study: french and germany baby cried were studied, frequency of usage plays a role. March 2 2017: has to do with intonation. Phonetic and phonological processes in production: unstressed syllable deletion, common in children, syllable simplification.
