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Interactions between lexical and phonological development: cross-linguistic and contextual considerations – a commentary on Stoel-Gammon's ‘Relationships between lexical and phonological development in young children’*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2010

KATHERINE DEMUTH
KATHERINE DEMUTH*
Affiliation:
Macquarie University
*
Address for correspondence: Centre for Language Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2019, Australia. e-mail: katherine.demuth@mq.edu.au.
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Stoel-Gammon (this issue) provides a welcome addition to the phonological acquisition literature, bringing together insights from long-standing and more recent research to address the relationship between the developing phonological system and the developing lexicon. A growing literature on children's early use of words across languages and phonological contexts provides additional insight into the nature of the interactions between phonological and lexical development, suggesting that learners' knowledge and connection of the two may develop much earlier than often thought. This commentary highlights some of these exciting results from recent cross-linguistic research on development between the ages of 1 and 3.

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Review Article and Commentaries
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Journal of Child Language , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , January 2011 , pp. 69 - 74
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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Footnotes

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I thank Philip Dale, Jae Yung Song and Rachel Theodore for helpful comments and suggestions.

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