Phonological Reduction in Maternal Speech in Northern Australian English: Change over Time

Autor/inn/en	Buchan, Heather; Jones, Caroline
Titel	Phonological Reduction in Maternal Speech in Northern Australian English: Change over Time
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 41 (2014) 4, S.725-755 (31 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000913000123
Schlagwörter	Phonology; Mothers; Speech; English; Toddlers; Parent Child Relationship; Longitudinal Studies; Age Differences; Change; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fonologie; Mother; Mutter; Speaking; Sprechen; English language; Englisch; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Wandel; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	Segmental variation in maternal speech to children changes over time. This study investigated variation in non-citation speech processes in a longitudinal, 26-hour corpus of maternal northern Australian English. Recordings were naturalistic parent-child interactions when children (N = 4) were 1;6, 2;0, and 2;6. The mothers' speech was phonetically transcribed and analyzed. Based on previous sociophonetic research showing proportional changes in speech variants in maternal speech as children get older, it was predicted that deletion of word-initial /h/ and word-final /v/, processes common in non-citation speech, would increase over time. Instead results showed a non-linear change in deletion within a stable set of lexical items. Deletion proportionately increased between 1;6 and 2;0 and decreased between 2;0 and 2;6. Further analysis indicated increased deletion was not accounted for by changes in speech rate, which only marginally increased over time. Findings suggest mothers fine-tune differentially over time as children's receptive and productive language knowledge develops. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10