Exemplarbasierte Annäherungen an das Silbengelenk

Pröll, Simon; Freienstein, Jan-Claas and Ernst, Oliver (2016): Exemplarbasierte Annäherungen an das Silbengelenk. In: Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik, Vol. 44, No. 2: pp. 149-171

Abstract

Using elicited experimental data from 35 kindergartners, this article investigates the ability of children aged 3-6 to deal with German ambisyllabic consonants. In this age group - yet without structured tuition in reading and writing, the development of the phonologic system still in progress - both intra-and inter-subject variation appears to be greater than previous studies conducted on school children revealed. It is argued that this variability supports the view of an exemplar-based theory on language acquisition;stable analytic knowledge on this specific syllable structure emerges as a function of age and frequency. Simultaneously, the data suggest a second kind of underlying variation, stemming from the contact of two conflicting typological syllable systems.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Languages and Literatures > Department 1
• Subjects: 400 Language > 400 Language
• ISSN: 0301-3294
• Alliance/National Licence: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
• Language: German