Carroll, Julia M. , Myers, Joanne M. and Adelman, James S. (2007) Phonemic and sub-phonemic neighbourhood similarities in young children's lexicons. In: Fourteenth Annual Meeting Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Prague, Czech Republic, 12-14 Jul 2007

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Abstract

Several researchers have suggested that the phonological representations of children are less detailed than those of adults, perhaps because their lexicons are not as densely populated with similar sounding words (Charles-Luce & Luce, 1990). However, these analyses are based on estimates of expressive vocabulary, which underestimates the total number of words they must represent. This paper presents the results of an analysis of neighbourhood densities of words within an average child's receptive vocabulary at four years, estimated using files from the CHILDES database. Neighbourhood densities will be analysed both in terms of phonemic similarities and in terms of shared phonetic features.

Item Type:	Conference Item (Paper)
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Psychology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Phonemics, Language acquisition, Children -- Language
Official Date:	July 2007
Dates:	Date Event July 2007 Submitted
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Conference Paper Type:	Paper
Title of Event:	Fourteenth Annual Meeting Society for the Scientific Study of Reading
Type of Event:	Conference
Location of Event:	Prague, Czech Republic
Date(s) of Event:	12-14 Jul 2007

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