The development of prosodic structure in early words : continuity, divergence and change / Mitsuhiko Ota.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ōta, Mitsuhiko.

Series:

Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 34.

Language acquisition & language disorders, 0925-0123 ; v. 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Prosodic analysis (Linguistics).

Language disorders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2003.

Summary:

This monograph addresses three basic questions regarding the development of word-internal prosodic structure: How much of the phonological structure of early words is regulated by the same constituents and principles that govern the organization of prosodic structure of mature grammar? Why do early words diverge from the adult targets in shape and size? And what is the best way to model developmental changes that occur in prosodic structure? Answers to these questions are explored through the longitudinal analysis of spontaneous production data from child Japanese. The analysis provides new types of evidence and new arguments that the prosodic phonology of young children is largely continuous with that of adults, and that the surface child-adult divergence in word forms and the overall pattern of developmental changes are best explained in terms of ranked violable constraints on the representation of prosodic structure, whose ordering is modified in the course of acquisition.

Contents:

The Development of Prosodic Structure in Early Words

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1.1. Basic issues

1.1.1. Research questions

1.1.2. Continuity of prosodic structure development

1.1.3. Child-adult differences in phonological forms

1.1.4. Development in prosodic structure

1.2. Empirical domains of investigation

1.2.1. Linguistic domains

1.2.2. The language of investigation

1.3. Overview

Phonological theory and prosodic acquisition

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Phonological background

2.2.1. Prosodic theory

2.2.2. The prosodic structure of Japanese

2.2.3. Optimality Theory

2.3. Previous research on prosodic acquisition

2.3.1. Representation of early words

2.3.2. Child-adult differences

2.3.3. Development of prosodic structure

2.4. Summary of previous research

Methods

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Subjects

3.3. Collection method

3.4. Transcription and coding

The representation of early syllable-internal structure

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Compensatory lengthening and moraic conservation

4.2.1. Moraic conservation

4.2.2. Excursus on length distinction

4.2.3. Compensatory lengthening in child Japanese

4.2.4. Comparisons with other child languages

4.2.5. Section summary

4.3. Bimoraic maximality

4.4. Sonority threshold on moraicity

4.4.1. Zec's (1988) generalization

4.4.2. Development of geminates in child Japanese

4.4.3. Sonority and Weight-by-Position

4.5. Conclusions

The development of syllable-internal structure

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Child-adult differences in syllable-internal structure

5.2.1. Developmental stages in syllable-internal prosodic structure

5.2.2. Analysis of syllable-internal structure in child grammars

5.3. Account of developmental patterns.

5.3.1. Restrictions on constraint reranking

5.3.2. Individual differences

5.3.3. Mechanisms of reranking

5.4. Conclusions

The representation of early word-internal structure

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Minimality condition in child language

6.2.1. Minimality effects as evidence for foot structure

6.2.2. Bimoraic minimality of truncated words

6.2.3. Lengthening of monomoraic targets

6.2.4. Summary

6.3. Templatic effects

6.3.1. Templatic effects as evidence for word-internal structure

6.3.2. Factoring out non-templatic causes of truncation

6.3.3. Disyllabic maximality

6.4. Conclusions

The development of word-internal structure

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Developmental stages in word-internal structure

7.2.1. Monosyllabic stage

7.2.2. Stage 1: word = strictly binary foot

7.2.3. Stage 2: Beyond the minimal word

7.3. Analysis of word-internal structure in child grammars

7.3.1. Relevant constraints

7.3.2. Stage 1: the minimal word stage

7.3.3. Stage 2: Beyond the minimal word

7.4. Issues in the development of word-internal structure

7.4.1. Paths of constraint reranking

7.4.2. Continuing effects of markedness

7.5. Conclusions

General conclusions and further directions

8.1. Conclusions

8.1.1. Continuity

8.1.2. Child-adult differences

8.1.3. Mechanisms of development

8.2. Further directions

The segment inventory of Japanese

Vowels

Consonants

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

References

Author index

Language index

Subject index

The series LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS.

Notes:

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Georgetown University, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612160769

9781282160767

1282160761

9789027295972

9027295972

OCLC:

55664408