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Altvater-Mackensen, Nicole; Fikkert, Paula – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2015
The present article investigates the acquisition of Manner of Articulation (MoA) contrasts in child language production. We analyzed spontaneous longitudinal speech data of four German and six Dutch 1- to 3-year-olds. The data suggest that the acquisition of MoA contrasts is influenced by various co-occurrence constraints at the word level.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies, German
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Zamuner, Tania S.; Kerkhoff, Annemarie; Fikkert, Paula – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
This research investigates children's knowledge of how surface pronunciations of lexical items vary according to their phonological and morphological context. Dutch-learning children aged 2.5 and 3.5 years were tested on voicing neutralization and morphophonological alternations. For instance, voicing does not alternate between the pair…
Descriptors: Evidence, Phonetics, Child Language, Indo European Languages