We consider two theories of laryngeal representation, one using a single feature [voice] generalizing across prevoicing languages and aspiration languages, and the other using multiple features: [voice] for pre-voicing languages and [spread glottis] for aspiration languages. We derive predictions for children’s early productions, and test these for three Germanic languages. Children acquiring Dutch, a prevoicing language, show de-voicing of stops, while available data from German, an aspiration language, show de-aspiration. Although the difference might simply reflect intrinsic properties of children’s early production and perception systems, we argue that a representational account is in order, based on multiples features. The case is made for English, an aspiration language, based on the early productions of a single child. A laryngeal harmony pattern is found which spreads voicelessness from coda to onset, which is argued to involve activity of [spread glottis]. This is interpreted as evidence for a laryngeal representation involving multiple features.
2022. Accent boundaries and linguistic continua in the laryngeal subsystems of English. Linguistics Beyond and Within (LingBaW) 8 ► pp. 24 ff.
Buckler, Helen & Paula Fikkert
2016. Dutch and German 3-Year-Olds’ Representations of Voicing Alternations. Language and Speech 59:2 ► pp. 236 ff.
DAVIS, Barbara, Suzanne VAN DER FEEST & Hoyoung YI
2018. Speech sound characteristics of early words: influence of phonological factors across vocabulary development. Journal of Child Language 45:3 ► pp. 673 ff.
Everett, Caleb & Sophie Schwartz
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Fikkert, Paula & Nicole Altvater‐Mackensen
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2022. Neutralisation et fortition en interphonologie laryngale du français. Langue française N° 215:3 ► pp. 103 ff.
Morales‐Front, Alfonso
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Newlin-Łukowicz, Luiza
2014. From interference to transfer in language contact: Variation in voice onset time. Language Variation and Change 26:3 ► pp. 359 ff.
Olson, Daniel J
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Romani, Cristina, Claudia Galuzzi, Cecilia Guariglia & Jeremy Goslin
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Rose, Yvan & Sharon Inkelas
2011. The Interpretation of Phonological Patterns in First Language Acquisition. In The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, ► pp. 1 ff.
Schluter, Kevin T., Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Meera Al Kaabi & Diogo Almeida
2017. Laryngeal Features Are Phonetically Abstract: Mismatch Negativity Evidence from Arabic, English, and Russian. Frontiers in Psychology 8
SIMON, ELLEN
2010. Child L2 development: A longitudinal case study on Voice Onset Times in word-initial stops. Journal of Child Language 37:1 ► pp. 159 ff.
Simon, Ellen & Torsten Leuschner
2010. Laryngeal Systems in Dutch, English, and German: A Contrastive Phonological Study on Second and Third Language Acquisition. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 22:4 ► pp. 403 ff.
Stoehr, Antje, Titia Benders, Janet G van Hell & Paula Fikkert
2017. Second language attainment and first language attrition: The case of VOT in immersed Dutch–German late bilinguals. Second Language Research 33:4 ► pp. 483 ff.
STOEHR, ANTJE, TITIA BENDERS, JANET G. VAN HELL & PAULA FIKKERT
2018. Heritage language exposure impacts voice onset time of Dutch–German simultaneous bilingual preschoolers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 21:3 ► pp. 598 ff.
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Tar, Éva
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ter Haar, Sita Minke & Clara Cecilia Levelt
2018. Disentangling Attention for Frequency and Phonological Markedness in 9- and 12-Month-Old Infants. Language Learning and Development 14:4 ► pp. 279 ff.
Thiessen, Erik D. & Meagan N. Yee
2010. Dogs, Bogs, Labs, and Lads: What Phonemic Generalizations Indicate About the Nature of Children’s Early Word‐Form Representations. Child Development 81:4 ► pp. 1287 ff.
van der Feest, Suzanne V. H. & Paula Fikkert
2015. Building phonological lexical representations. Phonology 32:2 ► pp. 207 ff.
Yamaguchi, Naomi
2015. L’acquisition phonologique, de Jakobson aux modèles fréquentiels. Langages N° 198:2 ► pp. 31 ff.
Yang, Yuxiao, Xiaoxiang Chen & Qi Xiao
2022. Cross-linguistic similarity in L2 speech learning: Evidence from the acquisition of Russian stop contrasts by Mandarin speakers. Second Language Research 38:1 ► pp. 3 ff.
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2012. Phonotactics and morphophonology in early child language: Evidence from Dutch. Applied Psycholinguistics 33:3 ► pp. 481 ff.
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