Gestures, features and segments in early child speech.
| Number | 1187 |
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| Year | 1995 |
| Drawer | 22 |
| Entry Date | 01/17/2001 |
| Authors | Studdert-Kennedy, M. & Goodell, E.W. |
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| Publication | In: deGelder, B. & Morais, J. (eds.). Speech and Reading: A Comparative Approach. Hove, England: Erlbaum (UK), Taylor & Francis |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1187.pdf |
| Abstract | [Introduction] That an alphabetic orthography represents speech at the level of the phoneme seems to be generally agreed. But the definition of the phoneme and even its functional status are still matters of contention among linguists. We do not propose to join the linguistic argument here. We take the facts of reading and writing to be sufficient evidence for the functional reality of the phoneme as a perceptuomotor control structure representing a class of phonetic segments (cf. Studdert-Kennedy, 1987). We assume, further, that phonetic segments (consonants and vowels) are not the irreducible elements of which speech is composed. Rather, segments are complex structures, implicit in the gestural patterns of speech, that gradually emerge and take on their perceptuomotor functions over the first few years of articulatory phonology (Browman & Goldstein, 1986; 1989) to a small set of data drawn from the utterances of a 2-year-old child. |
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