@inproceedings{fc1a2b9af4754405826bdd6ce1c1cca2,
title = "Two-year-olds' acquisition of the possessive morpheme: an acoustic analysis",
abstract = "Previous research shows that 2-year-olds' production of third person singular -s, but not plural -s, is affected by coda complexity, though both are more accurately produced in durationally longer utterance-final compared to utterancemedial position. This study explores these effects with possessive -s. Acoustic analysis of 10 two-years-olds' elicited imitations examined children's use of simple versus complex codas (e.g. Sue's vs. Doug's) both utterance-medially and utterance-finally. Morpheme production was surprisingly robust across contexts, but coda clusters were often simplified to -s singletons utterance-medially (e.g. Doug's [dɐz]). The findings raise many questions about lexical and morphological development in typical and language-impaired populations.",
keywords = "child language acquisition, morpheme production, speech acoustics",
author = "Kiri Mealings and Katherine Demuth",
year = "2012",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology",
publisher = "Australian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA)",
pages = "13--16",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology",
note = "Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (14th : 2012) ; Conference date: 03-12-2012 Through 06-12-2012",
}