LING 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Phonetic Transcription, Baby Bottle, Phoneme
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Evidence in favor of adult-like representation and non-adult rules. Anecdotal evidence suggests that children perceive adult forms in an adult way. This suggests that their underlying representations are adult-like. Child and adult are looking at a picture of a rabbit. The child realized that wabbit" is not the correct pronunciation. If a child cannot hear a difference between two sounds, then they should be used randomly for each other. When a child acquires a new contrast, it is usually generalized to appropriate situations only. For each form below, decide whether it is a protoword or not and be prepared to give reasons why or why not. (n. b. Nana: not a protoword the number of syllables is simply reduced from the word banana". Ba: this is a protoword because the meaning is a mystery to anyone around the child given that there are so many things that it could mean.
