Pre-School Children's Knowledge of English Phonology
Charles Read
Abstract
Charles Read
Abstract
The author suggests that some preschool children have an unconscious knowledge of aspects of the sound system of English; that these children tacitly organize phonetic segments into categories defined by articulatory features; and that these children base their judgments of phonological relationships on certain specifiable features.
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The author suggests that some preschool children have an unconscious knowledge of aspects of the sound system of English; that these children tacitly organize phonetic segments into categories defined by articulatory features; and that these children base their judgments of phonological relationships on certain specifiable features.
Key concepts: Phonology, Unconscious mind, Linguistics, Psychology, Phonetics, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy