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Speech planning insights from child language| old_uid | 12246 |
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| title | Speech planning insights from child language |
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| start_date | 2016/10/07 |
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| schedule | 11h-12h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Our thinking about production has been dominated by adult models. These models take syntax and lexical access seriously. They also consider phonological structure at the level of the prosodic word, but otherwise say little about how the rhythms and intonation of connected speech are generated. This is perhaps because speech motor control and mature cognitive abilities are taken for granted, and so the focus is on language. The shorter utterances of child language, characterized by simpler constructions and prosodic coherence, provide us with an opportunity to reimagine the production process from the bottom up. I will argue that a developmentally-sensitive model of production is a better model of production for this reason: the protracted development of speech motor skills forces the researcher to think both in terms of speech and language, thus tightening the link between them. I will provide some examples of the insights that can be gained by working in child speech-language, including results that suggest the intonational phrase as a planning domain that is defined by a temporal window, and those that are aimed at distinguishing between a metrical theory of prosodic word creation and a functionally-motivated alternative. Finally, I will also sketch the outline of a developmentally-sensitive model of speech production that both organizes the insights gained so far and is the source of additional functionally-motivated hypotheses. |
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