chapter 3 pt 2 Flashcards
behaviorism contributors
Watson
Skinner
Pavlov
behavorism
use imitation & reinforcement
babies produce the sounds they do because they imitate the sounds they hear & get reinforcement for doing so
generative phonology contributor
Noam Chomsky
generative phonology
underlying representation of sound & the rules they operate under to produce speech
children’s job to learn the rules & relevant features
innate
natural phonology contributor
Stampe
natural phonology
phonological processes substituted for a class/sequence of hard sounds
substitution made w/ easier sounds
children;s underlying representation is adult-like
nonlinear phonology contributor
Goldsmith
nonlinear phonology
made up of things on many different levels
word features, articulatory & motor function
speech & language cannot be separated –> speech production develops as language matures
separated into prosodic & segmental tiers
sonority hypothesis contributors
old theory
contemporary research = Ladefoged
sonority hypothesis
children get rid of the least sonorant consonants (stops & fricatives)
& keep the most sonorant
optimality theory contributors
Prince
Smolensky
optimality theory
constraints –> markedness & faithfulness
children’s job is to learn the ranking of the rules
increase faithfulness constraints & decrease markedness
errors are not arbitrary
constraints
features children pay attention to
faithfulness constraints
sounds/features that must preserved in order for speech to be intelligible
markedness constraints
production limitations
psycholinguistics theory
explanation of phonological development, not just description
happens between input & output
stage 1: reflexive vocalization
0-2 mos
crying
fussing
mouth open during cry
tongue touches soft palate
infant cannot:
voluntarily direct tongue position
sustain vocalization in non-cry sounds
stage 2: control of phonation
1-4 mos
vowel & consonant like sounds
raspberries, clicks, laughter
infants can sustain vocalization in non-cry sounds
stage 3: expansion
3-8 mos
increase in oral cavity size
sustained vocalizations more vowel like
child produces 2+ vowels in a row
squeals
marginal babbling
marginal babbling
series of open-closed vowel segments
CV
ma, ba, da
Stage 4: basic canonical syllables
5-10 mos
canonical babbling
whispers