A retrospective study of phonetic inventory complexity in acquisition of Spanish: implications for phonological universals. Academic Article

abstract

• This study evaluates 39 different phonetic inventories of 16 Spanish-speaking children (ages 0;11 to 5;1) in terms of hierarchical complexity. Phonetic featural differences are considered in order to evaluate the proposed implicational hierarchy of Dinnsen et al.'s phonetic inventory typology for English. The children's phonetic inventories are examined independently and in relation to one another. Five hierarchical complexity levels are proposed, similar to those of English and other languages, although with some language-specific differences. These findings have implications for theoretical assumptions about the universality of phonetic inventory development, and for remediation of Spanish-speaking children with phonological impairments.

authors

• Moyna, Maria

published proceedings

• Clin Linguist Phon

author list (cited authors)

• Catao, L., Barlow, J. A., & Moyna, M. I.

citation count

• 19

complete list of authors

• Cataño, Lorena||Barlow, Jessica A||Moyna, María Irene

publication date

• January 2009

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics  Journal

keywords

• Aging
• Child Language
• Child, Preschool
• Female
• Humans
• Infant
• Language
• Learning
• Male
• Phonetics
• Retrospective Studies
• Speech Production Measurement

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/02699200902839818

start page

• 446

end page

• 472

volume

• 23

issue

• 6

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1080%2F02699200902839818