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Aspects of the phonological acquisition of clicks in Xhosa
Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Stellenbosch, 1994.
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| author | Lewis, Philip William |
| author2 | Roux, J. C. |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/58274 Aspects of the phonological acquisition of clicks in Xhosa Lewis, Philip William Roux, J. C. Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages. Xhosa language -- Phonology Children -- Language Dissertations -- Xhosa language Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Stellenbosch, 1994. Studies in the manner children acquire the sound systems of their language have been pursued for over a hundred years. However, the main thrust of research in children's phonological development only occurred after the translation into English in 1968 of Roman Jakobson's classic monologue Child Language, Aphasia and Phonological Universals. The impetus of this translation inevitably led to indepth studies on the phonological acquisition of various sound classes such as stops, fricatives and affricates. However, very limited research has been documented on the phonological acquisition of clicks, particularly those in Xhosa. As a result, researchers only have a very general picture of how these sounds are acquired. Furthermore, very little is known about how the acquisition of clicks by mother tongue speakers compares to the acquisition of clicks by non-mother-tongue speakers, nor is much known about the loss of clicks by aphasics. In order to bring about a better understanding of the phonological acquisition of clicks, this investigation set out to focus on an empirical investigation into aspects concerning the nature of the acquisition of these sounds by 41 Xhosa speaking children aged between 1; 6 and 5 ;5. The study was furthermore extended to compare these results with data on the acquisition of clicks by 18 non-Xhosa-speaking children acquiring Xhosa in primary school, as well as data on the loss of clicks by 3 Xhosa speaking aphasics. Masters 2012-08-27T11:38:53Z 2012-08-27T11:38:53Z 1994 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/58274 en Stellenbosch University 136 pages application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Xhosa language -- Phonology Children -- Language Dissertations -- Xhosa language Lewis, Philip William Aspects of the phonological acquisition of clicks in Xhosa |
| title | Aspects of the phonological acquisition of clicks in Xhosa |
| title_full | Aspects of the phonological acquisition of clicks in Xhosa |
| title_fullStr | Aspects of the phonological acquisition of clicks in Xhosa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Aspects of the phonological acquisition of clicks in Xhosa |
| title_short | Aspects of the phonological acquisition of clicks in Xhosa |
| title_sort | aspects of the phonological acquisition of clicks in xhosa |
| topic | Xhosa language -- Phonology Children -- Language Dissertations -- Xhosa language |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/58274 |
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