Phonotactics Essays

Analyses - Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes uses a varied meter in “Let America Be America Again”. In the first line and title of his poem he starts with the first syllable [let] stressed, followed by a unstressed syllable [a]. This trochaic dimeter is used just for the first four syllables, following a iambic tetrameter starting with [ca] unstressed and [be] stressed. The second line starts with a trochee, but this time with eight syllables, therefore a tetrameter. The last syllable

increased fine motor abilities (such as their fingers and hands) as they can more accurately divert the attention and ask their caregiver about unfamiliar objects themselves. Further, the child will be exposed to even more words with at times lower phonotactic probabilities, exposing the child to new sound combinations and further expanding their repertoire of locutionary words. Overall, this increase in movement sets the stage for locutionary language development, as now the child has most of the cognitive

1. Discuss some of the factors that influence semantic development. For each, specify how a specific factor might affect a child’s semantic development. The factors that influence semantic development include gender, language impairment and language exposure. It has been found that girls know more words and have a larger vocabulary than boys particularly in the first five years of life. From a biological standpoint, the area of language development in the brain works at a faster rate in girls, and

Although all children have difficulty with phonotactic speech errors, consonant harmony, and final consonant deletion in the first 12–18 months of life, these issues persist past the age of 3 in children with CAS (ASHA, n.d.). Older children with CAS make inconsistent sound errors that are not

human’s life. Language acquisition starts at birth. The child is exposed to a spoken language and the Phonological system starts working. This system is responsible of recognizing the sound of a language. This spoken language entails phonemes, phonotactics, stress pattern and intonation system all of them included in the same received sound. Therefore, children have to differentiate all these elements every time they are exposed to the speech of those close to them and somehow children do that and

late and may be missing sounds. They may only utilize a few consonant and vowel sounds. And they have a problem combining sounds and may have disrupted or lengthened transitions between sounds. Although all children have difficulty with speech phonotactic errors, consonant harmony, and final consonant deletion in the first 12-18 months of life, children with CAS have these issue persist past the age of 3 (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2007). They also may simplify words by replacing