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Children’s production of speech at the early stage of language development is characterized with children’s erroneous pronunciation that results from simplification and reduction of speech sounds and their sequences. This article treats this issue in two folds. First, it discusses a possible explanation on children’s speech production pattern on the basis of the notion of sonority hierarchy. Most of the previous studies in child phonology focused on the ease of articulation in association with simplification and reduction. But I argue that auditory distance must be considered as a potential factor of English-acquiring children’s characteristic sound patterns, pointing out that sonority hierarchy could play a crucial role. Second, well-know examples of child English phonology are analyzed in terms of non-linear phonology. In doing so, it will be shown that English-acquiring children’s speech data at the earliest stage of language development include assimilation, deletion, reduction, and/or substitution, which are nicely described and explained under non-linear phonology.

목차

Ⅰ. Introduction
 II. The Development of Sounds and the Sonority Hierarchy
 Ⅲ. Phonological Processes in Early Child Language
  1. Syllable Structure Simplification
  2. Assimilation
  3. Substitution
 IV. Summary
 Works Cited
 ABSTRACT

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저자

• Ho Han [ 한호 | Ajou University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810