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Brown, Cynthia A.

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Acquisition of segmental structure: Consequences for speech perception and second language acquisition.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Acquisition of segmental structure: Consequences for speech perception and second language acquisition./
Author:	Brown, Cynthia A.
Description:	296 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Lydia White; Heather Goad.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-12A.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NQ44371
ISBN:	9780612443716

Acquisition of segmental structure: Consequences for speech perception and second language acquisition.
Brown, Cynthia A.

Acquisition of segmental structure: Consequences for speech perception and second language acquisition. - 296 p.

Advisers: Lydia White; Heather Goad.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University (Canada), 1997.

Through an investigation of the acquisition of feature geometric representations in first and second language acquisition, this dissertation demonstrates how the Feature Geometry theory contained in Universal Grammar actively guides and constrains the acquisition of segmental representations by children. In addition, it demonstrates how the mature feature geometry in a speaker's mental grammar restricts the range of nonnative phonemic contrasts that he or she will be sensitive to in the input and, hence, able to acquire as an L2 learner.

ISBN: 9780612443716Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

Acquisition of segmental structure: Consequences for speech perception and second language acquisition.
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520 $a Through an investigation of the acquisition of feature geometric representations in first and second language acquisition, this dissertation demonstrates how the Feature Geometry theory contained in Universal Grammar actively guides and constrains the acquisition of segmental representations by children. In addition, it demonstrates how the mature feature geometry in a speaker's mental grammar restricts the range of nonnative phonemic contrasts that he or she will be sensitive to in the input and, hence, able to acquire as an L2 learner.
520 $a Three related areas of research are explored and integrated in this work: first, a theoretical study explores the feature-geometric representation of sonorant and non-sonorant laterals, based on their behavior in a variety of phonological processes cross-linguistically, and suggests that [lateral] is not a phonological feature, but rather that laterality is a phonetic property that derives from a specific feature-geometric representation; second, an experimental study investigates the acquisition of phonemic contrasts by English children and demonstrates that segmental representations are acquired in a uniform order that is consistent with properties of Feature Geometry; finally, a series of experimental studies examines the perception and acquisition of the English /l-r/, /b-v/, /p-f/, /f-v/ and /s-theta/ contrasts by native speakers of Japanese, Mandarin Chinese and Korean.
520 $a The findings from each of these studies are synthesized to obtain a comprehensive picture of how segmental representations are acquired and how this L1 knowledge impinges on the acquisition of L2 phonemes: it is argued that the monotonic acquisition of feature-geometric structure by young children restricts their sensitivity to particular non-native contrasts, and the continued operation of this existing feature geometry in adult speech perception constrains which non-native contrasts adult learners will be sensitive to in the L2 input and, therefore, capable of acquiring; the circumstances in which the native grammar facilitates perception of non-native contrasts and in which acquisition is possible are also discussed.
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