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Demuth, Katherine; McCullough, Elizabeth – Journal of Child Language, 2009
Studies of English and German find that children tend to acquire word-final consonant clusters before word-initial consonant clusters. This order of acquisition is generally attributed to articulatory, frequency and/or morphological factors. This contrasts with recent experimental findings from French, where two-year-olds were better at producing…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech, Phonemes, Phonology
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Charles-Luce, Jan; Luce, Paul A. – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Examines issues relating to similarity neighborhoods of words in children's lexicons. Young children's receptive vocabularies were analyzed for three-phoneme, four-phoneme and five-phoneme words. The pattern of the original results from Charles-Luce & Luce (1990) was replicated. (18 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Language Patterns, Language Research