23.4864, Books: Phonotactics and Its Acquisition, Representation, and Use: Boll- Avetisyan

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From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Phonotactics and Its Acquisition, Representation, and Use: Boll- Avetisyan

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 Title: Phonotactics and Its Acquisition, Representation, and Use 
Subtitle: An Experimental-Phonological Study 
Series Title: LOT dissertation series  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Author: Natalie Boll- Avetisyan

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460930805 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 

Abstract:

One of the most challenging tasks for language-learning infants and second
language (L2)-learning adults is to segment the continuous stream of speech
that surrounds them, and, following this, to acquire a lexicon. Both speech
segmentation and lexical acquisition are known to be facilitated by
phonotactics, i.e., language-specific restrictions on how phonemes may
combine. This dissertation addresses questions regarding the representation
and acquisition of such phonotactic knowledge in a native language and an L2.
Five experimental studies are presented. The first three studies, using the
artificial language learning paradigm, reveal that segmentation is influenced
by structural phonotactic knowledge of OCP-PLACE, a restriction against pairs
of consonants sharing the feature [Place]. It is shown that this knowledge is
used only by native listeners or advanced L2 learners of a language restricted
by the constraint. This suggests a language-specific acquisition from the
input. The third study, with infants, shows that this input is continuous
speech rather than the lexicon. The remaining two studies demonstrate that
abstract phonotactic knowledge of syllable structure is represented separately
from specific probabilistic knowledge, as the two have separate effects on
lexical acquisition in a short-term memory recall task. Moreover, results from
L2 learners suggest that probabilistic knowledge can be acquired independently
of structural knowledge of the L2. While most studies have looked at the
influence of specific representations of  phonotactic probability, here it is
shown that representations of abstract structural constraints also influence
processing. Moreover, it is demonstrated that both types of phonotactic
representations are acquired from the input.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology

Written In: English  (eng)

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