31.52, Books: Phonological Templates in Development: Vihman

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Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 00:13:31
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: Phonological Templates in Development: Vihman

 


Title: Phonological Templates in Development 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Phonology and Phonetics  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/phonological-templates-in-development-9780198793564?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Marilyn May Vihman

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198793564 Pages: 384 Price: U.S. $ 90.00


Abstract:

This book explores the role of phonological templates in early language use
from the perspective of usage-based phonology and exemplar models and within
the larger developmental framework of Dynamic Systems Theory. After analysing
children's first words and their adult targets, Vihman sets out procedures for
establishing the children's later prosodic structures and templates, drawing
on data from American and British English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Italian,
and Welsh; she also provides briefer longitudinal accounts of template use in
Arabic and Brazilian Portuguese. The children are found to begin with simple
word forms that match their selected adult targets; this is followed by the
production of more challenging words, adapted to fit the child's existing
patterns. Early accuracy is replaced by later recourse to an 'inner model'--a
template--of a favoured word shape.

The book also examines the timing, fading, quantification, and function of
child phonological templates. In addition, two chapters focus on the use of
templates in adult language, in the core grammar and in the more creative
morphology of colloquial 'short forms' and hypocoristics in French and
Estonian and of English rhyming compounds. The idea of templates is traced
back to its origins in Prosodic Morphology, but its uses are most in evidence
in the informal settings of adult language 'at play'. Throughout the volume,
the discussion returns to the issues of emergent systematicity, the roles of
articulatory and memory challenges for children, and the similarities and
differences in the function of templates for adults as compared with children.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Morphology
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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