University of Essex.
Child Dev. 2013 Jan-Feb;84(1):313-30. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01845.x. Epub 2012 Sep 9.
Using a picture pointing task, this study examines toddlers' processing of phonological alternations that trigger sound changes in connected speech. Three experiments investigate whether 2;5- to 3-year-old children take into account assimilations--processes by which phonological features of one sound spread to adjacent sounds--for the purpose of word recognition (e.g., in English, ten pounds can be produced as te[mp]ounds). English toddlers (n = 18) show sensitivity to native place assimilations during lexical access in Experiment 1. Likewise, French toddlers (n = 27) compensate for French voicing assimilations in Experiment 2. However, French toddlers (n = 27) do not take into account a hypothetical non-native place assimilation rule in Experiment 3, suggesting that compensation for assimilation is already language specific.
本研究使用图片指向任务考察了幼儿对触发连读语音变化的音系交替的处理。三个实验探究了 2;5 至 3 岁儿童是否会考虑到同化——即一个音的音系特征扩散到相邻音的过程——以进行单词识别（例如，在英语中，ten pounds 可以发成 te[mp]ounds）。在实验 1 中，英语幼儿（n=18）在词汇获取过程中表现出对母语同化的敏感性。同样，在实验 2 中，法语幼儿（n=27）对法语的浊音同化进行了补偿。然而，在实验 3 中，法语幼儿（n=27）并没有考虑到一个假设的非母语同化规则，这表明同化的补偿已经是特定于语言的。
