Talk:Single Word Utterances/@comment-24947466-20150731190706

Is There a "Trochaic Bias" in Early Word Learning? Evidence from Infant Production in English and French. Vihman, Marilyn May; DePaolis, Rory A; Davis, Barbara L. Child Development69.4(Aug 1998): 935-949.

Studies of speech perception & segmentation in the prelinquistic period, early word production, & patterns of function word omission in early syntax have all recently emphasized the role of the trochaic accentual pattern in English, sometimes positing a universal trochaic bias. Perceptual & acoustic analyses were performed of words & babble from children (N = 9) acquiring English & children acquiring French (N = 5) in the late single-word period (13-20 months) to provide a direct test for the existence of such a bias. Neither English nor French infant vocalizations were exclusively trochaic. The iambic productions of American infants were traced to the presence of iambic phrases in the input. Differences between English & French in the acoustic realization of accent in infant vocalizations were also traceable to adult patterns. However, the almost bipolar distribution of trochaic & iambic patterns in the data from English-learning infants was ultimately traceable to the integration of prosodic & segmental patterning in individual child word production templates, themselves arguably the product of an earlier acting articulatory filter. 6 Tables, 7 Figures, 64 References. Adapted from the source document

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