Dobrich W, Scarborough H S
Rutgers University, NJ.
J Child Lang. 1992 Oct;19(3):597-616. doi: 10.1017/s0305000900011582.
To examine the possible persistence of phonological selectional constraints on young children's lexical choices, the words attempted in the conversational speech of a longitudinal sample of 12 normally-developing preschoolers from age 2;0 to 5;0 were scored for syllabic length, presence of consonant clusters, and distribution of constituent phonemes. Except at the youngest ages, few developmental changes in target word characteristics were seen, and the observed differences were largely accounted for by syntactic, lexical, and pragmatic factors. The results suggest that selectional constraints persist only briefly in the course of language acquisition.
为了研究语音选择限制对幼儿词汇选择可能存在的持续性影响，对12名年龄从2岁0个月至5岁0个月的正常发育学龄前儿童纵向样本的对话语音中尝试说出的单词，按照音节长度、辅音连缀的存在情况以及组成音素的分布进行评分。除了在最小的年龄段，目标词特征几乎没有发育变化，观察到的差异在很大程度上由句法、词汇和语用因素所解释。结果表明，选择限制在语言习得过程中仅短暂存在。
