By Susan Foster-Cohen (eds.)

This publication offers a photo of the sector of language acquisition at first of the twenty first Century. It represents the multiplicity of methods that represent the sphere and gives a assessment of present themes and debates, in addition to addressing a few of the connections among sub-fields and attainable destiny instructions for research.

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1. Some are, as expected, quite close to the target word forms (those in bold face), while others are less accurate. All of the English children produce over half of their early words relatively accurately; Helena, who makes the latest start, produces all of her first words as good matches. In the case of the other British children the less accurate forms generally involve final consonant omission (as in Jude’s cat, Ian’s bang, catch and Ali’s word learning 27 gone). Jude unusually targets two longer words, omitting the medial syllable in Barnaby and the initial trochee in caterpillar.

This appears to be a characteristic of early words in a language with a great many simple reduplicated words in infant-directed speech. In contrast, no one pattern dominates the output for any of the British children. Note that in a comparison of first word forms in English, French and Welsh in relation to the early acquisition of rhythm, Vihman et al. (2006) found that the disyllabic words most often used by five children acquiring French were all characterized, like the Italian data here, by simple CVCV structures (with harmonizing consonants in maman ‘mama’, papa, poupée ‘doll’, but not chapeau ‘hat’) while each of the (American) English children’s oftenused disyllabic words that included a diphthong, coda, syllabic consonant, C1VC2V sequence, or more than one of these sources of difficulty (apple, baby, Big Bird, button).

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