Segmental acquisition in Portuguese: a dynamic approach

• Main Author: Daniela Mara Lima Oliveira Guimarães
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística 2008-01-01
• Series: Fórum Linguístico
• Subjects: Aquisição da fonologia modelo dinâmico; Alofones; Africadas alveopalatais
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/11641

Using a longitudinal study, composed of data from three male and one female child, this paper draws a path of alveopalatal affricate acquisition, the sounds [tS] and [dZ], in Brazilian Portuguese. The results corroborate the dynamic approach principle that in segmental acquisition there are linearity and non-linearity in the accurate production of the target sound. We argue that phonological acquisition is individual and non-linear and instable moments reflect the hypothesis a child creates about the functioning of phonological system.