An Introduction to Speech Production in the Child (original) (raw)

Elsevier eBooks, 1980

Abstract

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on speech production in the child. The use of language is one of the most distinctive characteristics of the human species. One part of human language behavior, which is to a considerable extent autonomous, is the pronunciation; the speech sounds themselves as articulated and perceived by human beings in their use of language. The phonological production research, concerned with the structure of whole phonological systems, falls into three fairly distinct phases, related to successive dominant phonological theories—structuralist, generative, and post-generative. Learnability by children is the basic determinant of phonological structure. Children do not have a system of their own, and their phonology can be analyzed usefully only in relation to the adult system. They have, at an early age, full perceptual mastery of the adult phonological oppositions and have lexical representations equivalent to the adult surface forms. Their pronunciation falls short of the adult's because of lack of mastery of the necessary articulatory processes. Their phonological system includes a set of ordered realization rules that apply to the underlying representations to yield the pronunciation.

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