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Sound categories or phonemes?
Author(s) -
Redford Melissa A.
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.12227
Subject(s) - phonology , generative grammar , psychology , linguistics , sound change , focus (optics) , phonological rule , representation (politics) , sound (geography) , function (biology) , phonetics , word (group theory) , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , acoustics , philosophy , physics , evolutionary biology , politics , political science , law , optics , biology
Vihman emphasizes the importance of early word production to the emergence of phonological knowledge. This emphasis, consistent with the generative function of phonology, provides insight into the concurrent representation of phonemes and words. At the same time, Vihman's focus on phonology leads her to possibly overstate the influence of early word acquisition on the emergence of sound categories that are probably purely phonetic in nature at the outset of learning.