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Phonetic variation in consonants in infant-directed and adult-directed speech: the case of regressive place assimilation in word-final alveolar stops
2013
Journal of Child Language
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A B S T R A C T Pronunciation variation is under-studied in infant-directed speech, particularly for consonants. Regressive place assimilation involves a word-final alveolar stop taking the place of articulation of a following word-initial consonant. We investigated pronunciation variation in word-final alveolar stop consonants in storybooks read by forty-eight mothers in adult-directed or infant-directed style to infants aged approximately 0 ; 3, 0 ; 9, 1 ; 1, or 1; 8. We focused on
doi:10.1017/s0305000912000670
pmid:23388188
fatcat:efr4q4x72re6phiwpw3v2kmp3i