An alternative typology for the acquisition of the laryngeal node and the point C node by Brazilian Portuguese speaking children
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2004v7n1p79Keywords:
Sound, Phonetic inventories.Abstract
The aim of this work is to present an acquisition profile for the sound contrasts and the articulation points in the Brazilian Portuguese, identified by Fronza (1999). The research corpus consists of data from 34 subjects with normal phonological development, from 1;6 to 3;3 (divided into 11 age groups from 2 to 2 months). After setting te phonetic inventories and the contrastive phone system of each subject, the changes in obstruents are verified as for the use of the (sound) trace and the articulation point traces (labial, coronal) and its dependent (anterior, dorsal), that is, the dependent traces of the laryngeal node and the point C node, respectively, according to the trace geometry by Clements and Hume (1995).