The Phonological Mean Length of Utterance: Methodological Challenges from a Crosslinguistic Perspective

Autor/inn/en	Saaristo-Helin, Katri; Savinainen-Makkonen, Tuula; Kunnari, Sari
Titel	The Phonological Mean Length of Utterance: Methodological Challenges from a Crosslinguistic Perspective
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 33 (2006) 1, S.179-190 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000905007294
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Phonology; Language Acquisition; Children; Vowels; Finland; Mean Length of Utterance + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Fonologie; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Child; Kind; Kinder; Finnland
Abstract	The present study assesses the phonological development of 17 children acquiring Finnish at the developmental point of 25 words (ages 1;2-2;0). The analysis is made using the "PHONOLOGICAL MEAN LENGTH OF UTTERANCE" (PMLU) method (Ingram & Ingram, 2001; Ingram, 2002), which focuses on the children's whole-word productions. Two separate analyses are carried out: the first analysis concentrates on consonants and follows the procedure devised by Ingram and Ingram (2001), and the second analysis also scores the correctness of vowels. The PMLU results of both analyses are found to be much higher than those reported for children acquiring English. The results show the apparent need for more language-specific research in order to develop the PMLU method suitable for various language environments. (Contains 1 footnote.) [This research was supported by the Emil Aaltonen Foundation and the University of Oulu.] (Author).
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