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Three Problems in the Development of Speech Perception

Arthur McCaffreyJudge Baker Guidance Center 295 Longwood Avenue Boston, Massachusetts02115
Pages 205-224 | Published online: 16 Jun 2015

  • David McNeill, “The Development of Language,” in Carmichael's Manual of Child Psychology, ed. Paul Mussen, 3rd ed. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1970), I, 1061–1161.
  • For example, Roman Jakobson, Child Language, Aphasia and Phonological Universals trans. A. Keiler (The Hague: Mouton, 1968); Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle, The Sound Pattern of English (New York: Harper & Row, 1968); Paul M. Postal, Aspects of Phonological Theory (New York: Harper & Row, 1968); and Roman Jakobson and Morris Halle, Fundamentals of Language (The Hague: Mouton, 1956).
  • See Arthur McCaffrey, “Speech Perception in Infancy” (Ph.D. diss., Cornell Univ., 1971), and “Phonological Universals and Natural Speech Sound Differentiation by Infants in the First Seven Months of Life” (Paper presented to the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Conference in Philadelphia on March 29, 1973).
  • N. Kh. Shvachkin's “The Development of Phonemic Speech Perception in Early Childhood,” in Studies of Child Language Development, ed. Charles A. Ferguson and Dan Slobin (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973).
  • See, for example, Werner F. Leopold, “Patterning in Children's Language Learning,” in Psycholinguistics, ed. Sol Saporta (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961), pp. 350–358; H. V. Velten, “The Growth of Phonemic and Lexical Patterns in Infant Speech,” Language, XIX (1943), 281–292; O. C. Irwin, “Phonetical Description of Speech Development in Childhood,” in Manual of Phonetics, ed. L. Kaiser (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1957); M. C. Templin, Certain Language Skills in Children (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1957); and M. M. Lewis, Infant Speech (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1936).
  • For example, P. S. Eimas, E. R. Siqueland, P. Jusczyk, and J. Vigorito, “Speech Perception in Infants,” Science, CLXXI (1971), 303–306; A. R. Moffit, “Consonant Cue Perception by Twenty- to Twenty-four-week-old Infants,” Child Development, XLII (1971), 717–731; P. A. Morse, “The Discrimination of Speech and Nonspeech Stimuli in Early Infancy,” Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, XIV (1972), 477–492; S. E. Trehub and M. S. Rabinovitch, “Auditory-linguistic Sensitivity in Early Infancy,” Developmental Psychology, VI (1972), 74–77; and S. E. Trehub, “Infants’ Sensitivity to Vowel and Tonal Contrasts,” Developmental Psychology, IX (1973), 91–96.
  • See Arthur McCaffrey, “Asymmetry, Asynchrony and Discontinuity—Some Observations on Infant Speech Perception,” in Proceedings of the International Symposium on First Language Acquisition, Florence, Sept. 4–5, 1972, ed. Walburga von Raffler-Engel and Yvan Lebrun, Neurolinguistics Series No. 5 (Brussels: Univ. of Brussels Press, 1975).
  • See n. 2 above.
  • Eleanor J. Gibson, Principles of Perceptual Learning and Development (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969).
  • See Roman Jakobson (n. 2 above); Velten (n. 5 above); Leopold (n. 5 above); and John MacDonald, “A Critique of Developmental Phonology from the Point of View of Transformational Theory” (Special qualifying paper, Graduate School of Education, Harvard Univ., 1967).
  • See Eimas et al. (n. 6 above); Moffitt (n. 6 above); McCaffrey, “Speech Perception”; Morse (n. 6 above); Trehub and Rabinovitch (n. 6 above); and Trehub(n. 6 above).
  • See Jakobson (n. 2 above) and McCaffrey, “Speech Perception”, pp. 67–88.
  • See, for example, Eimas et al. (n. 6 above); Moffit (n. 6 above); McCaffrey (n. 3 above); Morse (n. 6 above); Trehub and Rabinovitch (n. 6 above); and Trehub (n. 6 above).
  • See, for example, Moffitt, Morse, Trehub and Rabinovitch, and Trehub (n. 6 above).
  • Eimas et al. (n. 6 above) and McCaffrey (n. 3 above).
  • See Eimas et al., fig. 3.
  • Such as Jakobson, and Chomsky and Halle (n. 2 above).
  • See, for example, Jakobson (n. 2 above); MacDonald (n. 10 above); and McCaffrey, “Speech Perception.”
  • Moffitt (n. 6 above) and Morse (n. 6 above).
  • See Trehub (n. 6 above) and Trehub and Rabinovitch (n. 6 above).
  • Trehub (n. 6 above).
  • Discussed in McCaffrey, “Speech Perception,” pp. 137–142.
  • McCaffrey (n. 3 above).
  • Jakobson, and Chomsky and Halle (n. 2 above).
  • In Chomsky and Halle, pp. 176–177.
  • Jakobson, pp. 67 ff.
  • See, for example, MacDonald (n. 10 above), and McCaffrey, “Speech Perception.”
  • Eimas et al., and McCaffrey, “Speech Perception.”
  • See Postal, Jakobson, and Chomsky and Halle (n. 2 above).
  • Discussed in A. Pinard and M. Laurendeau, “'Stage’ in Piaget's Cognitive-Developmental Theory,” in Studies in Cognitive Development, ed. D. Elkind and J. H. Flavell (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1969), pp. 125–136.
  • Bärbel Inhelder, The Diagnosis of Reasoning in the Mentally Retarded (New York: John Day, 1968), p. 55.
  • McNeill (n. 1 above).
  • Discussed in Ulrich Neisser, Cognitive Psychology (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1967).
  • See McCaffrey, “Speech Perception.”
  • See Jakobson (n. 2 above), pp. 123–131, and Gibson (n. 9 above).
  • See Jakobson, and Jakobson and Halle (n. 2 above).
  • See, for example, Susan Ervin-Tripp, “Language Development,” in Review of Child Development Research, ed. M. Hoffman and L. Hoffman (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1966), II.
  • As in Ervin-Tripp, “Language Development.” See also McCaffrey, “Speech Perception.”
  • In Jakobson, pp. 71–73.
  • On this point, see MacDonald, “Critique,” pp. 33–43.
  • Discussed in Pinard and Laurendeau (see n. 30 above).
  • See Pinard and Laurendeau, (n. 30 above) and Inhelder (n. 31 above).
  • See Pinard and Laurendeau, p. 131.
  • See Chomsky and Halle, chap. 9.
  • On this point, see Jakobson, Child Language, pp. 46ff.; and MacDonald “Critique,” pp. 33–43.
  • Eve Clark, “Some Aspects of the Conceptual Basis for First Language Acquisition,” in Language Perspectives: Acquisition, Retardation and Intervention, ed. R. L. Schiefelbusch and L. L. Lloyd (Baltimore: University Park Press, 1974).
  • See Jakobson (n. 2 above), and McNeill (n. 1 above).
  • See, for example, Jerome Kagan, Change and Continuity in Infancy (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1971); and Sheldon H. White, “Some General Outlines of the Matrix of Developmental Changes Between Five and Seven Years,” Bulletin of the Orton Society, XX (1970), 41–57.
  • Jakobson, pp. 20–31.
  • Ibid., p. 25.
  • McNeill (n. 1 above).
  • Thomas G. Bever, Pre-Linguistic Behavior (B. A. honors thesis, Dept. of Linguistics, Harvard Univ., 1961).
  • See Irwin (n. 5 above).
  • See, for example, Brain and Early Behaviour: Development in the Fetus and Infant, ed. R. J. Robinson (New York: Academic Press, 1969).
  • Shvachkin (n. 4 above).

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