LING444 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Consonant Cluster, Linguistic System, Language Change
4 Nov 2018
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Babbling the same regardless of input language [universal babbler] Knows something about syllables, vowels, and consonants (ug) Start building a linguistic system (of english) Lose the ability to be a universal listener, but english-specific contrasts are imported to the new linguistic system (functional reorganization) Babbling shows babbling drift" towards english- babbling starts to sound like english. We will consider perception of early words on monday. Idea: children have trouble either hearing or producing various phonological distinctions (or both) Immediate problem: we already know that infants are good at perceiving phonological distinctions. That even if they can hear the distinctions, they cannot produce them because (say) they cannot yet control the muscles of the mouth. What is easy for a child learning one language, may be hard for a child learning a different language. Hildegard"s development of pretty": first correct, then /b1d1/, then correct. An example of u-shaped learning curve (correct instances start high, then low, then back to high)
