The role of lexical and segmental frequency on the acquisition of fricatives for 1-3 years-old children: a dynamic perspective of Brazilian Portuguese acquisition - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v32i2.10006

Authors

  • Rosane Garcia Universidade Católica de Pelotas (UCPel)
  • Márcia Zimmer Universidade Católica de Pelotas (UCPel)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v32i2.10006

Keywords:

language acquisition, emergentism, dynamic systems, fricatives

Abstract

This study investigates the acquisition of fricatives of Brazilian Portuguese, by focusing on the relationship between lexical and segmental frequency in two corpora of data collected during adult-child interaction: a corpus of adult child-directed speech and a corpus of the words produced by six babies aged 1-4 year-old. The aim was to compare, in an emergentist perspective, type and toke frequency of fricative segments in the lexicon of both corpora, and the results regarding speech production are interpreted according to a dynamic view of language acquisition

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Author Biographies

  • Rosane Garcia, Universidade Católica de Pelotas (UCPel)
    Mestre em Llinguística Aplicada (UCPel) Doutoranda em Linguística Aplicada (UCPel) Ãrea de Investigação: aquisição da linguagem
  • Márcia Zimmer, Universidade Católica de Pelotas (UCPel)
    Doutorado em Lingüística e Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (UFGRS) Professor adjunto I da Universidade Católica de Pelotas (UCPel)

Published

2010-12-22

Issue

Section

Linguistics

How to Cite

Garcia, R., & Zimmer, M. (2010). The role of lexical and segmental frequency on the acquisition of fricatives for 1-3 years-old children: a dynamic perspective of Brazilian Portuguese acquisition - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v32i2.10006. Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 32(2), 279-289. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v32i2.10006

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