Overview

Drawing on major research developments in the field, Vihman has updated and extensively revised the 1996 edition of her classic text to provide a thorough and stimulating overview of current studies of child production and perception and early word learning. Offers a full survey of the thinking on how babies develop phonological knowledge Provides a much needed update on the field – one in which this book remains unique, and in which there have also been dramatic developments since the publication of the first edition Surveys what has been learned about phonological development and raises questions for further study The only book that includes balanced treatment of research in perception and production and attempts a synthesis of these fields, which have generally developed in isolation from one another Includes a new chapter providing an overview of communicative and attentional development, as well as perceptual and vocal development, in the first 18 months, with additional focus on both implicit and explicit learning mechanisms

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Author:   Marilyn May Vihman (University of York, UK)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9781118342800

ISBN 10:   1118342801
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   14 February 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Note on Second Edition xi Acknowledgments xiii 1 Introduction 1 Biological Foundations of Language Development 3 Phonological Development: Goals and Challenges 10 Methodologies: Data Sources and Theoretical Perspectives 13 Overview 16 2 Precursors to Language: The First 18 Months of Life 18 The Development of Linguistic Form and Function 20 1 Early Capacities: Birth to 2 Months 23 2 Early Capacities: 2 to 4 Months 26 3 Early Capacities: 4 to 6 Months 28 4 First Advances: 6 to 9 Months 29 5 Bringing the Strands Together: 9 to 12 Months 31 6 Transition to Language Use: 12 to 18 Months 35 Learning Mechanisms 40 Summary: Precursors and the Transition to Language Use 46 3 Development in Perception: Early Capacities, Rapid Change 49 Issues that Motivated the Study of Infant Speech Perception 49 Methods Used to Study Infant Speech Perception 56 Discrimination: Infant Capacities 59 Mechanisms Underlying Infant Perception 60 Developmental Change in Perception 63 ""Perceptual Narrowing"": Models of Developmental Change 67 Cross-Modal Perception 75 Summary: The Infant Listener – From Universal to Particular 78 4 Infant Vocal Production 80 Early Vocal Production 81 The Social Context, I: Precanonical Period 91 The Emergence of Adult-Like Syllables 95 The Social Context, II: Canonical Period 101 Vowel Production in the First Year 103 Influence from the Ambient Language 105 Summary: Biological and Social Foundations 110 5 Perceptual Advances in the First Year: Prosody, Segmentation and Distributional Learning 112 The Role of Prosody and Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) 113 Prosodic Bootstrapping 117 Advances in Knowledge of Accentual Patterns and Phonotactics 121 Experimental Studies of Segmentation 125 Distributional or Statistical Learning 139 Summary: Rhythms and Segmental Patterns 143 6 The Transition to Language Use 145 Beginnings of Word Comprehension 146 Development of Intentional Communication 150 Referential Word Use 161 Phonetic and Phonological Development 163 Rhythm in Child Production 168 Emergence of Phonological Systematicity 175 Summary: Continuity and Change 177 7 Experimental Studies of Word-Form Learning 179 The Role of Phonology in Word Recognition and Word Learning 179 The Perceptual Basis of Word Learning 180 Explorations of ""Phonological Specificity"" 186 Integrating the Findings 200 Neurophysiological Investigation of Word Learning 202 Summary:Understanding the Development of Representation 209 8 Phonological Development in the Bilingual Child 212 The Study of Child Bilingualism 213 ""Non-selectivity"" in Adult Bilingual Processing 214 Speech Perception and Processing 217 Bilingual Production 231 Separate Systems with Interaction 241 Summary: The Experience of the Bilingual Child 243 9 Theories, I: Formalist and Perception Models 245 What is the Source of the Linguistic System? 246 The First Linguistic Models 248 Contemporary Formalist Models 254 Contemporary Formalist Models: Critique and Appreciation 268 Perception Models 270 Perception Models: Critique and Appreciation 275 Summary: Theory and Data in Developmental Models 275 10 Theories, II: Functionalist or Emergentist Models 277 Biological Model 278 Self-Organizing Models 279 Usage-Based Models 285 Whole-Word Phonology 290 Functionalist or Emergentist Models: Critique and Appreciation 307 Summary: Emergent Phonology 309 11 Conclusion 311 Linking Perception and Production 312 Effects of Lexical Learning and Language Use 315 Appendix 1: Data Sources 318 Appendix 2: Protoword Forms and Uses 321 Appendix 3: Template Analyses 323 Word Template Analysis: A Diary Study 323 Word Template Analysis: Research Studies 331 Generality of Template Use 346 References 349 Name Index 407 Subject Index 417"

Reviews

?This open-minded, comprehensive overview of the intersecting components of phonological development is a masterpiece that should shape new directions of research for many years to come. Vihman elucidates the many underlying assumptions, some in conflict with one another, that have guided research on phonological development, and lays out clearly the relevance of individual variability in very young children. Vihman?s work will cause researchers in the disparate areas of perception, production, word learning, variation, and phonological universals to be informed by each other?s results, potentially revolutionizing our understanding of phonological development.? ?Sharon Inkelas, University of California, Berkeley Phonological Development: The First Two Years (Second Edition) is essential reading and a primary text for all specialists and students in language development as well as those interested in phonological development in particular. It provides in-depth and up-to-date coverage of all areas of research relevant to understanding phonological development, with comprehensive reviews of both empirical findings and theoretical frameworks. An emphasis is made on the need to relate the development of perception and production, and the study of phonological development to broader areas of language acquisition. Besides eleven chapters, it also contains valuable appendices on protowords and template analyses. To my knowledge it is the most thorough and important book on this topic to date. ?David Ingram, Arizona State University ?Marilyn Vihman?s work unfolds on the center court of child phonology research. This book gives a broad and insightful account of this complex topic?a treatment that is likely to serve, for a long time, as an indispensable reference on the early stages of learning to speak.? ?Bjoern Lindblom, Stockholm University ?This eagerly awaited second edition masterfully updates Vihman's review of research on earlier themes as well as on several new themes, much of which attests to the profound inspiration of the seminal first edition.? ?Mary Beckman, Ohio State University

Author Information

Marilyn Vihman is Professor of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York. She is co-editor of The Emergence of Phonology: Whole-word approaches and cross-linguistic evidence (with T. Keren-Portnoy, 2013), which includes both classic and new empirical studies of phonological development in eight languages.

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