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The infant's developmental path in phonological acquisition
Author(s) -
Swingley Daniel
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/bjop.12215
Subject(s) - psychology , odds , language acquisition , developmental psychology , language development , path (computing) , process (computing) , developmental science , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , linguistics , mathematics education , medicine , philosophy , logistic regression , computer science , programming language , operating system
Research on how language acquisition begins has been fragmented both in terms of scientific communities and in terms of the phenomena that are taken to characterize developmental progress. In her article, Marilyn Vihman argues for an integrative approach that takes the child's efforts at speech production as primary, and notes that infants' knowledge of how words sound may accrue over a protracted period developmentally. Here, I briefly discuss how reconceptualization of the process can help integrate perspectives previously at odds.