summary: segmental acquisition & prosody

[Kimary Shahin]

I recently posted a request for references on segmental acquisition
by prosodic position and stress. The references I received
in response are listed below. Sincere thanks to all who responded!

K. Shahin
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•articles:

Brown, P. (1997). Isolating the CVC Root in Tzeltal Mayan: A Study of
Children's First Verbs. In E. V. Clark (ed.), The Proceedings of the
Twenty-eighth Annual Child Language Research Forum. Stanford, CA:
CSLI, 41-52.

Chiat, S. (1983). Why Mikey's right and My key's wrong: the
significance of stress and word boundaries in a child's
output system.  Cognition 14, 275-300.

Chiat, S. (1989). The relation between prosodic structure,
syllabification and segmental realization: evidence from a child with
fricative stopping. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 3, 223-242.

Echols, C.-H., & Newport, E.-L. (1992). The role of stress and
position in determining first words. Language Acquisition 2(3),
189-220.

Hura, -.S.-L., & Echols, -.C.-H. (1996). The Role of Stress and
Articulatory Difficulty in Children's Early Productions.
Developmental Psychology 32(1), 165-176.

Peters, A. (1997). The Role of Prosody in the Acquisition of
Grammatical Morphemes: Evidence from Two Chinese Languages.
Journal of Child Language 24, 627-650.

Pye, C., Ingram, D. & List, H. (1987). A comparison of initial
consonant acquisition in English and Quichi. In K. E. Nelson & A. Van
Kleech (dds), Children's language, Vol. 6. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum,
175-190.

Schwartz, R.-G., & Goffman, L. (1995). Metrical Patterns of Words and
Production Accuracy. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 38(4),
876-88.

Zamuner, T. S., & Gerken, L. A. (1998). Young children's production of
coda consonants in different prosodic environments. In E. V. Clark
(ed.), The Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth Annual Child Language
Research Forum, Stanford, CA: CSLI, 13-25.


•relevant data in:

Ingram, D. (1981), Procedures for the Phonological Analysis of
Children's Language. Baltimore, MD: University Park Press.

Olmsted, D. (1971), Out of the Mouth of Babes, The Hague: Mouton.


•ph.d. dissertation:

Zamuner, T. (in progress), ph.d. dissertation on the acquisition of
coda consonants in English, U Arizona.


•masters theses:

4 (Miranda 1996, Mezzomo 1999, Vidor 2000, Savio 2001),
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil),
under R. Lamprecht



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