| Up close and personal: a case study of the development of three English fillers. | |
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PMID: 14686083 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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As Peters (2001) has suggested, the young child's use of fillers seems to indicate awareness of distributionally-defined slots in which some as yet unidentified material belongs. One may view a filler as an emergent transitional form; as a slot that serves as an underspecified lexical entry for the accumulation of phonological and functional information; or as prosodic 'sentence padding'. We trace the development of three fillers in one English-acquiring child through seven months, from their first appearance about 1;9 through their re-analysis as English functors about age 2;4. We show how the description of these fillers requires an elaboration of the current framework for describing the emergence of morphology, from a one-dimensional to a multi-dimensional model. Finally, we argue that the neglect of such transitional and under-defined elements gives a false picture of development, making it appear as if language development takes place in discontinuous steps. |
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Authors:
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Andrea Feldman; Lise Menn |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Journal of child language Volume: 30 ISSN: 0305-0009 ISO Abbreviation: J Child Lang Publication Date: 2003 Nov |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2003-12-22 Completed Date: 2004-01-14 Revised Date: 2004-11-17 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 0425743 Medline TA: J Child Lang Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 735-68 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Program for Writing and Rhetoric, 317 UCB, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0359, USA. andrea.feldman@colorado.edu |
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Child Language* Humans Infant Language Development* Male Phonation Speech Production Measurement Verbal Learning* |
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