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Conclusion
• Children learning English nevertheless go through similar stages in
phonological development, although not precisely the same ages
Discussion (Ohala, 2008).
• Children make rapid and remarkable progresses in language learning,
Stops > Fricatives
always improving with a big step closer to the resemblance of adult
• Lucy has all the stops in English acquired in T2, when her fricatives
language. (Ohala, 2008; Thuresson, 2011)
just begins to develop.
• ∵ Stops present the sharpest possible contrast with vowels and
provide the most obstructive break in the acoustic stream of
References
speech sounds (Vihman, 1996) • Vihman, M. (1996). Phonological development: The origins of language development in the child. Wiley. • Ohala,
D. (2008). Phonological acquisition in a first language. • Fikkert, P. (1994). On the acquisition of prosodic structure.
• Production of stops starts before 2 y/o, but children may not master • Leopold, Werner F. (1947). Speech Development of a Bilingual Child, Vols 2. • McLeod, S., Van Doorn, J., &
Reed, V. (2001). Normal acquisition of consonant clusters. • Crystal, D. (1997): The Cambridge encyclopedia of
all fricatives until 7 or 8 (Ohala, 2008). language-second edition. • Yule, G. (1996): The study of language – Second edition. • Kies, D. (1995, 2016).
• So, stops are acquired before fricatives (Fikkert, 1994). papyr.com/hypertextbooks/grammar/ldgev.htm • Thuresson, J. (2011). The syntactic development in the earlier
stages of children’s first language acquisition.