{"id":1099,"date":"2020-10-22T15:58:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T15:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/?page_id=1099"},"modified":"2020-10-22T15:58:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T15:58:57","slug":"2-december-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/2-december-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"2 December 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Measuring phonological systematicity in infants\u2019 early words<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/people\/view\/921190-laing-catherine\">Catherine Laing<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early in development, infants\u2019 words are often very simple in structure: Early productions are phonologically systematic (Laing, 2019; Vihman, 2016), and reliant on phonological structures that are simple to produce, such as consonant harmony (\/beibi\/ to represent baby) and open CV syllables (\/da\/ to represent dog). Furthermore, many of infants\u2019 earliest words are phonologically similar: in data from their bilingual (English-Spanish) daughter\u2019s early word acquisition, Deuchar and Quay (2000) show that 13 of her first 20 words are produced with a CV structure, and many words are phonologically identical: she produces car, clock, casa \u2018house\u2019 and cat as \/ka\/, and papa \u2018daddy\u2019, p\u00e1jaro \u2018bird\u2019 and panda as \/pa\/. This points to continuity in the transition from babble to words; Vihman (2017) proposes that infants draw on what is most accessible to them in early word production, with earliest words matching the simple structures and stop consonants produced in babble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this talk, I analyse the phonological similarity of infants\u2019 developing lexicon to observe development of systematic phonological structures over the first three years. Using data from the Providence corpus (Demuth et al., 2006), I use network analysis to model phonological similarity of over 140,000 word productions from 5 infants (2 males) between ages 0;11 to 3;10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Measuring phonological systematicity in infants\u2019 early words Catherine Laing Early in development, infants\u2019 words are often very simple in structure: Early productions are phonologically systematic (Laing, 2019; Vihman, 2016), and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1864,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1099","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1864"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1099\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}