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Theodore, Rachel M.; Demuth, Katherine; Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: Prosodic and articulatory factors influence children's production of inflectional morphemes. For example, plural -"s" is produced more reliably in utterance-final compared to utterance-medial position (i.e., the positional effect), which has been attributed to the increased planning time in utterance-final position. In previous…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Morphemes, Suprasegmentals, Language Processing
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Demuth, Katherine; Culbertson, Jennifer; Alter, Jennifer – Language and Speech, 2006
Many languages exhibit constraints on prosodic words, where lexical items must be composed of at least two moras of structure, or a binary foot. Demuth and Fee (1995) proposed that children demonstrate early sensitivity to word-minimality effects, exhibiting a period of vowel lengthening or vowel epenthesis if coda consonants cannot be produced.…
Descriptors: Speech, Syllables, Oral Language, Longitudinal Studies