![[PDF]](/web/20191213034610im_/https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/Icons/adobe-pdf-icon-1498649896243.png){kind=icon}
Abstract
This article analyses longitudinal diary data from one infant acquiring German to seek a better understanding of the role of onomatopoeia in early language development. Onomatopoeic words (OWs) are traced over time in relation to their corresponding conventional forms (CWs), and an analysis of their phonological transitions is considered in relation to the infant’s wider language development. OWs are found to serve as a bootstrapping mechanism on a lexical as well as a phonological level, and a lexical OW ‘template’ is proposed, which is found to support phonological development throughout the infant’s output.
References
|
Behrens, H. (2007). The input–output relationship in first language acquisition. Language and Cognitive Processes, 21, 2–24. Google Scholar | Crossref | |
|
Caselli, M. C., Rinaldi, P., Stefanini, S., Volterra, V. (2012). Early action and gesture ‘Vocabulary’ and its relation with word comprehension and production. Child Development, 83, 526–542. Google Scholar | Medline | ISI | |
|
Elsen, H. (1991). Erstspracherwerb, Der Erwerb des deutschen Lautsystems. Wiesbaden, Germany: Deutscher Universitaets Verlag. Google Scholar | Crossref | |
|
Elsen, H. (1994). Phonological constraints and overextensions. First Language, 14, 305–315. Google Scholar | SAGE Journals | |
|
Elsen, H. (1996). Two routes to language: Stylistic variation in one child. First Language, 16, 141–158. Google Scholar | SAGE Journals | |
|
Ferguson, C. A., Farwell, C. B. (1975). Words and sounds in early language acquisition. Language, 51, 419–439. Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
Imai, M., Kita, S., Nagumo, M., Okada, H. (2008). Sound symbolism facilitates early verb learning. Cognition, 109, 54–65. Google Scholar | Crossref | Medline | ISI | |
|
Iverson, J. M., Goldin-Meadow, S. (2005). Gesture paves the way for language development. Psychological Science, 16, 367–371. Google Scholar | SAGE Journals | ISI | |
|
Jespersen, O. (1950). Language: Its nature, development and origin (8th ed.). London, England: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Google Scholar | |
|
Kauschke, C., Hofmeister, C. (2002). Early lexical development in German: A study on vocabulary growth and vocabulary composition during the second and third year of life. Journal of Child Language, 29, 735–757. Google Scholar | Crossref | Medline | ISI | |
|
Kern, S. (2010). Les premiers mots du jeune enfant français: analyse quantitative et qualitative du vocabulaire réceptif et productif des deux premières années de vie. Rééducation orthophonique, 244, 149–165. Google Scholar | |
|
Kunnari, S. (2002). Word length in syllables: Evidence from early word production in Finnish. First Language, 22, 119–135. Google Scholar | SAGE Journals | |
|
Laing, C. E. (2014). Phonological ‘wildness’ in early language development: Exploring the role of onomatopoeia. In PARLAY Proceedings 2013 (York Papers in Linguistics), University of York, UK, 6 September 2013, pp. 48–62. Google Scholar | |
|
Leopold, W. F. (1970). Speech development of a bilingual child (Vol. 1): Vocabulary growth in the first two years. New York, NY: AMS Press. Google Scholar | |
|
Meier, R. P., Mauk, C. E., Cheek, A., Moreland, C. J. (2008). The form of children’s early signs: Iconic or motoric determinants? Language Learning and Development, 4, 63–98. Google Scholar | Crossref | |
|
Menn, L., Vihman, M. (2011). Features in child phonology: Inherent, emergent, or artefacts of analysis? In Clements, N., Ridouane, R. (Eds.), Where do phonological features come from? The nature and sources of phonological primitives (Language Faculty and Beyond 6.) (pp. 261–301). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Google Scholar | Crossref | |
|
Nygaard, N. C., Cook, A. E., Namy, L. L. (2009). Sound to meaning correspondences facilitate word learning. Cognition, 112, 181–186. Google Scholar | Crossref | Medline | ISI | |
|
Orlansky, M. D., Bonvillian, J. D. (1984). The role of iconicity in early sign language acquisition. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 49, 287–292. Google Scholar | Crossref | Medline | |
|
Rhodes, R. (1994). Aural images. In Ohala, J., Hinton, L., Nichols, J. (Eds.), Sound symbolism (pp. 276–301). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar | |
|
Sapir, E. (1921). Language. New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. Google Scholar | |
|
Savinainen-Makkonen, T. (2007). Geminate template: A model for first Finnish words. First Language, 27, 347–359. Google Scholar | SAGE Journals | |
|
Slobin, D. I. (1980). The repeated path between transparency and opacity in language. In Bellugi, U., Studdert-Kennedy, M. (Eds.), Signed and spoken language: Biological constraints on linguistic form (pp. 229–246). Weinheim, Germany: Verlag Chemie. Google Scholar | |
|
Vihman, M. M., Croft, W. (2007). Phonological development: Toward a ‘radical’ template phonology. Linguistics, 45, 683–725. Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
Werner, H., Kaplan, B. (1963). Symbol formation. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. Google Scholar |
