The role of production practice in lexical and phonological development--a commentary on Stoel-Gammon's 'Relationships between lexical and phonological development in young children'.
Carol Stoel-Gammon has made a real contribution in bringing together two fields that are not generally jointly addressed. Like Stoel-Gammon, we have long focused on individual differences in phonological development (e.g. Vihman, Ferguson & Elbert, 1986; Vihman, Boysson-Bardies, Durand & Sundberg, 1994; Keren-Portnoy, Majorano & Vihman, 2008). And like her, we have been closely concerned with the relationship between lexical and phonological learning. Accordingly, we will focus our discussion on two areas covered by Stoel-Gammon (this issue) on which our current work may shed some additional light.
Vihman
Marilyn
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Dept. of Language and Linguistic Science, Vanbrugh College, University of York, Heslington, York, UK. marilyn.vihman@york.ac.uk
Keren-Portnoy
Tamar
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D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007804:Language Development; D008568:Memory; D010700:Phonetics; D012660:Semantics; D013060:Speech