Experimental Validation of OT Solutions to the Comprehension-Production Dilemma

The relationship between perception and production remains an unresolved issue within the study of phonological acquisition. Recent developments in optimality theory offer potentially new solutions to this long-standing problem; but thus far, the proposals that have been advanced are in the absence...

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Published in:Clinical linguistics & phonetics 2006-09, Vol.20 (7-8), p.485-491
Main Author: Gierut, Judith A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Auditory Perception
Child
Child language. Acquisition and development
Children
Humans
Language Acquisition
Linguistic Theory
Linguistics
Models, Theoretical
Optimality theory
perception
Phonemes
Phonetics
phonological acquisition
Phonology
production
Production and comprehension processes
Psycholinguistics
Psychology of language
Speech Communication
Syllables
Verbal Learning - physiology
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Summary:The relationship between perception and production remains an unresolved issue within the study of phonological acquisition. Recent developments in optimality theory offer potentially new solutions to this long-standing problem; but thus far, the proposals that have been advanced are in the absence of actual perception-production data from a given child. This paper provides an empirical instantiation of the perception-production effects by appealing to data from children's knowledge and use of syllables and segments. The demonstration shows that optimality theoretic accounts of the perception-production interface hold in part, but a crucial modification is required in order to obtain the full range of effects that are observed in phonological acquisition.
ISSN:0269-9206
1464-5076
DOI:10.1080/02699200500266075