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Download full textEilers, Rebecca E.; Oller, D. Kimbrough – 1975
This study investigated the relationship between perception and production in children's phonological learning to determine whether perceptual confusions could account for the patterns of substitution and deletion found in 2-year-olds' speech. A total of 14 children were presented pairs of toy stimuli, with each pair composed of a familiar item…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Child Language, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedEilers, Rebecca E.; Oller, D. Kimbrough – Journal of Child Language, 1976
Fourteen two-year-olds were presented with minimal word pairs in a new and efficient experimental perception paradigm. Data provide a view of relative difficulty of various minimal phonological contrasts for children. (CHK)
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Child Language, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedOller, D. Kimbrough; Cobo-Lewis, Alan B.; Eilers, Rebecca E. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
This study investigated phonological translation using a task designed to measure children's ability to map one phonological system onto another. Kindergarten and second-grade monolingual and bilingual students were evaluated. Results suggest that monolinguals generally performed poorly. Phonological translation is proposed as a tool with which to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Mapping, English
