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Interactive influences on phonological behaviour: a case study*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Nan Bernstein Ratner
Nan Bernstein Ratner*
Affiliation:
The University of Maryland
*
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Lefrak Hall, The University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD 20742, USA. E-mail addresses: nratner@umail.umd.edu.
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Abstract

An infant girl's unusual phonological behaviour was evaluated in the light of a maternai model which appeared to exaggerate features of normal conversational speech. It is suggested that parental responses to immature speech patterns may account for selected case study behaviours which have been reported in both the child phonology and child fluency literatures. It appears that evaluation of phonological development within an interactive framework may allow a more accurate picture of the conditions under which children learn speech skills. To this end, further study of the phonetic characteristics of input language and patterns of parental feedback to early articulatory attempts is desirable.

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Notes and Discussion
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Journal of Child Language , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , February 1993 , pp. 191 - 197
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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Footnotes

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This note is based upon a presentation at the Fifth IASCL Congress, Budapest, July 1990.

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