The Acquisition of Newly Emerging Sociophonetic Variation: /str-/ in American English

Autor/in	Rutter, Ben
Titel	The Acquisition of Newly Emerging Sociophonetic Variation: /str-/ in American English
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 41 (2014) 5, S.1166-1178 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000913000342
Schlagwörter	Language Acquisition; Language Variation; Language Usage; Mothers; Acoustics; Phonology; Parent Child Relationship; Classification; Learning Processes; Phonetics; North American English + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Sprachenvielfalt; Sprachgebrauch; Mother; Mutter; Akustik; Fonologie; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Learning process; Lernprozess; Phonetik; Fonetik; Amerikanisches Englisch
Abstract	Eight children aged 4;1-8;1 and their primary caregivers participated in a study designed to evaluate their use of the onset cluster /str-/ in both read and conversational speech. The cluster is currently undergoing a reported sound change in many varieties of English, with the initial /s/ being retracted to [?]. The study compared the initial fricative of the cluster in both the children and their mothers. Acoustic analysis was carried out in order to categorize tokens as either [s] or [?] using spectral peak analysis. Results found that children as young as 5;1 were starting to exhibit the usage patterns of their mothers. The distribution of the novel variant suggests that the children may be learning this form via a process of lexical diffusion rather than by rule. Implications for the study of dialect acquisition and phonological acquisition in general are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10