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Stepping backwards in development: integrating developmental speech perception with lexical and phonological development – a commentary on Stoel-Gammon's ‘Relationships between lexical and phonological development in young children’*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2010

TANIA S. ZAMUNER
TANIA S. ZAMUNER*
Affiliation:
University of Ottawa
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[*]Address for correspondence: Tania S. Zamuner, Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Arts Hall, 70 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa, ONT, K1N 6N5, Canada. e-mail: tzamuner@uottawa.ca
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Within the subfields of linguistics, traditional approaches tend to examine different phenomena in isolation. As Stoel-Gammon (this issue) correctly states, there is little interaction between the subfields. However, for a more comprehensive understanding of language acquisition in general and, more specifically, lexical and phonological development, we must consider relations between multiple subfields. That is, by examining the interactions between these subfields, a greater understanding of lexical and phonological development can emerge. For instance, the interaction between phonology, syntax and semantics is demonstrated in recent work looking at how phonological patterns can provide a basis for inferring a word's lexical category (such as nouns and verbs) (Christiansen, Onnis & Hockema, 2009; Lany & Saffran, 2010).

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Review Article and Commentaries
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Journal of Child Language , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , January 2011 , pp. 56 - 60
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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