Timeline for Do infants deliberately change the words when they omit the sounds and these words are minimal pairs?
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| Feb 7, 2012 at 9:47 | comment | added | Serpil Karabüklü | Thanks for the answer, I do not have any further example for this pattern and I understand that some occurences for this utterance does not mean that the infant intentionally produce it. | |
| Feb 7, 2012 at 0:44 | comment | added | LaurenG | But the thing is that, to the child, they are different - like with the example above the child is not really aware of their output and completely aware of the target word, so it's unlikely that the child is aware they've created a homophone (and likely that this phase will only last a little while). | |
| Feb 6, 2012 at 16:34 | comment | added | Serpil Karabüklü | I know that they know the difference between two words but I wonder that if he delibaretely changes the sound to show this; that he utters different words although he deletes the sound and makes the word resemble another word in Turkish. Maybe, he tries to avoid this confusion by changing the first sound after deleting the sound. | |
| Feb 6, 2012 at 12:13 | history | answered | LaurenG | CC BY-SA 3.0 |