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The role of production practice in lexical and phonological development – a commentary on Stoel-Gammon's ‘Relationships between lexical and phonological development in young children’*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2010

MARILYN VIHMAN*
Affiliation:
University of York
TAMAR KEREN-PORTNOY
Affiliation:
University of York
*
[*]Address for correspondence: Marilyn M. Vihman, Dept. of Language and Linguistic Science, V/C/210, 2nd Floor, Block C, Vanbrugh College, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK. e-mail: marilyn.vihman@york.ac.uk

Abstract

Carol Stoel-Gammon has made a real contribution in bringing together two fields that are not generally jointly addressed. Like Stoel-Gammon, we have long focused on individual differences in phonological development (e.g. Vihman, Ferguson & Elbert, 1986; Vihman, Boysson-Bardies, Durand & Sundberg, 1994; Keren-Portnoy, Majorano & Vihman, 2008). And like her, we have been closely concerned with the relationship between lexical and phonological learning. Accordingly, we will focus our discussion on two areas covered by Stoel-Gammon (this issue) on which our current work may shed some additional light.

Type
Review Article and Commentaries
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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