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This 12 page paper discusses the extent to which gestural phonology can be used to provide adequate framework for the description of child speech. The paper examines the way speech develops from the initial babble, looking at segment exchanges through to full adult varigation. The bibliography cites 17 sources.
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be genetic. There is an internal innate gift for figuring out how to understand and use language and then develop its use. Many different factors are known to impact on
the way language development takes place in an infant and the subsequent use and understanding will be impacted by the environment, usually in terms of the presence or lack of
stimuli or examples. However this does not give a framework for the internal developments and patterns of child speech. One paradigm that can be explored is that of gestural
phonology. The way a child learns to speak has been observed, the language learnt is the local dialect and as such observation must play an important role in learning the
language (Wells, 1994). However, the way learning takes place is a process that is complex. The process is not one that is simply imitation. By looking at the process we
can see how it can be claimed that gestural phonology is the correct framework to explain the development. Godell and Studdert-Kenndy (1993)
note that when children learn to speak and use language they may often repeat the same word several times, saying it in different ways to experiment with it and see
how it feels. This assertion is supported not only by their own work, but also much earlier studies such as that by Albright and Albright (1956), Cohen (1952) and Leopold
(1953) (all quoted Godell and Studdert-Kenndy, 1993). These variations will play with the different phonic forms and give the child an experimental approach to language. This experimentation may also
be seen to extend the way words are used, such as a child referring to feets instead of feet, using it as the plural of foot or even a variation
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