Systematicity Over the Course of Early Development: An Analysis of Phonological Networks

• Published in: Language and speech p. 238309251331595
• Main Author: Laing, Catherine E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 24.05.2025
• Subjects: Systematicity; phonological development; networks analysis

This paper explores the early lexicons of nine infants acquiring English or French to determine the extent of systematicity in the early vocabulary, and how this changes over time. Network graphs are generated from the point of first word production in the dataset until age 30 months. Two measures o...