TY - JOUR
T1 - Preferential Use of Full Glottal Stops in Vowel-Initial Glottalization in Child Speech: Evidence from Novel Words
AU - Repiso Puigdelliura, Gemma
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© The Author(s), 2024.
PY - 2024/10/3
Y1 - 2024/10/3
N2 - Vowel-initial glottalization constitutes a cue to prosodic prominence, realized on a strength continuum from creaky phonation to complete glottal stops. While there is considerable research on children's early utilization of acoustic cues for stress marking, less is understood about the specific implementation of vowel-initial glottalization in American English. Eight sequences of function + novel words were elicited from groups of 5-to-8-year-olds, 8-to-11-year-olds, and adults. Children exhibit a similar rate of prevocalic glottalization to adults but differ in its phonetic implementation, producing a higher rate of glottal stops compared to creaky phonation with respect to adults.
AB - Vowel-initial glottalization constitutes a cue to prosodic prominence, realized on a strength continuum from creaky phonation to complete glottal stops. While there is considerable research on children's early utilization of acoustic cues for stress marking, less is understood about the specific implementation of vowel-initial glottalization in American English. Eight sequences of function + novel words were elicited from groups of 5-to-8-year-olds, 8-to-11-year-olds, and adults. Children exhibit a similar rate of prevocalic glottalization to adults but differ in its phonetic implementation, producing a higher rate of glottal stops compared to creaky phonation with respect to adults.
KW - vowel-initial glottalization
KW - glottal stops
KW - creaky phonation
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U2 - 10.1017/S0305000924000242
DO - 10.1017/S0305000924000242
M3 - Article
C2 - 39359166
SN - 0305-0009
SP - 1
EP - 12
JO - Journal of Child Language
JF - Journal of Child Language
ER -