Acquisition of Initial /s/-Stop and Stop-/s/ Sequences in Greek

Autor/inn/en	Syrika, Asimina; Nicolaidis, Katerina; Edwards, Jan; Beckman, Mary E.
Titel	Acquisition of Initial /s/-Stop and Stop-/s/ Sequences in Greek
Quelle	In: Language and Speech, 54 (2011) 3, S.361-386 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8309
DOI	10.1177/0023830911402597
Schlagwörter	Greek; Language Acquisition; Young Children; Phonemes; Error Patterns; Acoustics; Error Analysis (Language); Time; Foreign Countries; Greece + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Grieche; Griechisch; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Frühe Kindheit; Fonem; Fehlertyp; Akustik; Error analysis; Language; Fehleranalyse; Zeit; Ausland; Griechenland
Abstract	Previous work on children's acquisition of complex sequences points to a tendency for affricates to be acquired before clusters, but there is no clear evidence of a difference in order of acquisition between clusters with /s/ that violate the Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP), such as /s/ followed by stop in onset position, and other clusters that obey the SSP. One problem with studies that have compared the acquisition of SSP-obeying and SSP-violating clusters is that the component sounds in the two types of sequences were different. This paper examines the acquisition of initial /s/-stop and stop-/s/ sequences by sixty Greek children aged 2 through 5 years. Results showed greater accuracy for the /s/-stop relative to the stop-/s/ sequences, but no difference in accuracy between /ts/, which is usually analyzed as an affricate in Greek, and the other stop-/s/ sequences. Moreover, errors for the /s/-stop sequences and /ts/ primarily involved stop substitutions, whereas errors for /ps/ and /ks/ were more variable and often involved fricative substitutions, a pattern which may have a perceptual explanation. Finally, /ts/ showed a distinct temporal pattern relative to the stop-/s/ clusters /ps/ and /ks/, similar to what has been reported for productions of Greek adults. (Contains 5 figures and 6 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10