Exemplarbasierte Annäherungen an das Silbengelenk

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 – bot...

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Published inZeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 149 - 171
Main Authors Pröll Simon, Jan-Claas, Freienstein, Ernst, Oliver
Format Journal Article
LanguageGerman
Published Berlin Walter de Gruyter GmbH 01.08.2016
Subjects
Children
German language
Native language acquisition
Syllable structure
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0301-3294
1613-0626
DOI:10.1515/zgl-2016-0009