L'Adquisició de les codes en català i en castellà

Authors

  • Joan Borràs-Comes
  • Pilar Prieto Vives

Abstract

The acquisition of codas in Catalan and Castilian.
It is known that frequent exposure to syllable codas in a language encourages acquisition of them. Catalan and Castilian differ substantially in the distribution of codas in their lexical hoards (Catalan has many more in final stressed position (cf. Cast. caballo, Cat. cavall). This article studies the acquisition process by relating this difference of frequency to factors of acoustic prominence and the position of the word stress. We carried out a word production experiment with sixteen two-year olds. The materials used were composed of monosyllables and four types of bisyllabic form (trochees and iambs with word-medial or word-final codas). The results corroborate the idea that children are very sensitive to the specific frequency of codas in their language environment.

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Published

2011-05-04

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