title: The infant's developmental path in phonological acquisition.
abstract: Research on how language acquisition begins has been fragmented both in terms of scientific communities and in terms of the phenomena that are taken to characterize developmental progress. In her article, Marilyn Vihman argues for an integrative approach that takes the child's efforts at speech production as primary, and notes that infants' knowledge of how words sound may accrue over a protracted period developmentally. Here, I briefly discuss how reconceptualization of the process can help integrate perspectives previously at odds.
authors.affiliation: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Swingley
mesh_terms: D002657:Child Development; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007804:Language Development; D010700:Phonetics; D013060:Speech; D013067:Speech Perception
keywords: language acquisition; language development; language perception; phonology