28.3590, Books: Rhythm & Cues: Keij

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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 20:28:06
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Rhythm & Cues: Keij

Title: Rhythm & Cues 
Subtitle: Rhythmic structure and segmentation in early language acquisition 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/rhythm-cues 

Author: Brigitta Keij

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932335 Pages:  Price: ----  

Abstract:

This dissertation studies the early acquisition of rhythmic structure and its
use in speech segmentation from a cross-linguistic perspective. The main claim
is that infants are able to acquire the rhythmic structure of their native
language by the age of 6 months and that they are, in addition, able to use
linguistic stress as a cue to speech segmentation, however not in a
language-specific manner, by the age of 8 months. It is argued that infants
start out by discovering rhythmic patterns at the phrase level before
progressing to acquire rhythmic patterns at the word level and that this
transition is related to the degree of lexical development during early
language acquisition.

Two phases in this early language acquisition process are studied
experimentally: the development of rhythmic preferences and word segmentation.
This series of experiments demonstrates that Dutch-learning infants show a
preference for the dominant word stress pattern of their native-language by
the age of 6 months and that they subsequently use stress as a cue to
segmentation in a non-language-specific manner at 8 months of age. However,
Turkish-learning infants do not show a preference for the dominant word stress
pattern of their native language by the age of 6 months, but they do seem to
display an early preference for the dominant phrase level rhythmic pattern of
Turkish at 4 months of age, thus demonstrating a rhythmic sensitivity. At 8
months of age, Turkish-learning infants use the same stress cues to
segmentation as the Dutch-learning infants, thus in a universal manner. The
experiments that are reported in this dissertation suggest that infants use
their early rhythmic sensitivity initially to discover phrase level patterns
and that they progress to discovering word level patterns only later on. This
marks the importance of differentiating between prosodic levels when studying
early phonological development and encourages conducting theoretically
informed experiments in language acquisition research.

This book is of interest to theoretical linguists working on phonological
theory as well as experimental linguists working on early language
acquisition. More generally, it is relevant to scholars from any field who are
interested in the topic of how language is acquired, in particular, in the
first year of life.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology

Written In: English  (eng)

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