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The Dynamical Landscape: Phonological Acquisition and the Phonology–phonetics Link by Beata Łukaszewicz is a Psychology article available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Dynamical Landscape: Phonological Acquisition and the Phonology–phonetics Link about?
During acquisition children internalise adult-based phonological patterns and alternately adopt and discard child-specific patterns reflecting their unskilled production. The child-specific patterns are often assumed to be low-level phonetic effects, and so, in a classical modular feedforward grammar, they should not interfere with the higher-level adult-based phonology. This paper reports an interaction in which the application of a categorical adult-based process (Voice Assimilation) is conditioned by a gradient child-specific process (fricative devoicing). Acoustic analyses of longitudinal data from a Polish-speaking child reveal variable Voice Assimilation effects in target voiced fricative-stop/stop-fricative clusters (voicing and devoicing), correlated with the extent of voicing in fricatives in non-assimilatory contexts. I analyse this phonology-phonetics trade-off by appealing to symbol-like dynamical representations, expressed in the language of non-linear mathematics. Such representations offer a non-derivational link between the qualitative and quantitative aspects of speech. Variability ensues as a natural consequence of grammar change.
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- Author
- Beata Łukaszewicz
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Psychology (Social Sciences)