Lewis L B, Antone C, Johnson J S
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322-1400, USA.
Dev Psychol. 1999 Jan;35(1):45-59. doi: 10.1037//0012-1649.35.1.45.
The authors documented syllable omission in one child's multisyllabic vocabulary from 10 to 20 months of age to evaluate L. Gerken's (1991, 1994a, 1994b) proposal that children organize their productions according to a trochaic metrical (strong-weak) template and omit syllables from target utterances that do not conform to this pattern. The trochaic template hypothesis was not supported by these early productions. Results indicated that the likelihood of producing a target syllable was influenced primarily by the strength of the prosodic stress placed on it and secondarily by its serial order within a word. Over time, the child demonstrated an increasing ability to include syllables with weaker prosodic stress in multisyllabic productions. Omissions became much less common with the onset of 2-word speech.
作者记录了一名儿童在10至20个月大时多音节词汇中的音节省略情况，以评估L. 格肯（1991年、1994a、1994b）的提议，即儿童根据扬抑格韵律（强弱）模板来组织他们的发音，并从不符合这种模式的目标话语中省略音节。这些早期发音并不支持扬抑格模板假说。结果表明，发出目标音节的可能性主要受其韵律重音强度的影响，其次受其在单词中的顺序影响。随着时间的推移，该儿童在多音节发音中纳入韵律重音较弱音节的能力不断增强。随着双词话语的开始，省略情况变得不那么常见了。
