Phonological Acquisition of A Child Suffering from Language Delay

Language acquisition and phonological change

Grammont discusses changes in the development of French from Latin, citing examples of similar patterns in the speech of one child. For instance, the child displayed vowel dissimilation in forms like néni for fini ‘finished’, paralleling historical developments such as Latin finire  Old French fenir ‘to finish’. While Schleicher and Grammont stop short of imputing direct causality, explicit co...

Sound Symbolism in Foreign Language Phonological Acquisition

The paper aims at investigating the idea of a symbolic nature of sounds and its implications for in the acquisition of foreign language phonology. Firstly, it will present an overview of universal trends in phonetic symbolism, i.e. non-arbitrary representations of a phoneme by specific semantic criteria. Secondly, the results of a preliminary study on different manifestations of sound symbolism...

Second Language Acquisition and Phonological Change

A Computer Model of Child Language Acquisition

because generation cannot occur until comprehension learning adds words to the dictionary. Length of utterance Inoreases because the number of words available to express a oonoept inoreases during comprension learning. Knowledge of language meaning precedes knowledge of language syntax beoause syntax is indexed under word meanings and hence cannot be learned before the word meaning. Misundersta...

Second Language Acquisition and First Language Phonological Modification

While many second language (L2) acquisition studies analyze the effects that the first language (L1) has on L2 development, less common are studies that examine the converse situation: does acquisition of an L2 impact the L1? This study examines the effects of L2 acquisition on L1 use by looking at the L1 phonological productions of advanced L2 learners vis-à-vis the production of monolingual s...