Child Language, Aphasia and Phonological Universals

✍ Scribed by Roman Jakobson; Allan R. Keiler

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 1968
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 104
• Series: Janua Linguarum. Series Minor; 72
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

PREFACE
I. The Phonological Development of Child Language and Aphasia as a Linguistic Problem
1. Types of Linguistic Activity
2. Interaction between Child Language and the Languages of the World
3. Occasional and Constant Agreements
4. Recording and Analysis of the Beginnings of Child Language
5. Principle of Least Effort and Cessation of Babbling Sounds
6. Emergence of the Speech Sound
7. Interjectional Sounds
8. Supposed Exceptions to Order of Phonological Development
9. Dissolution of the Phonological System
10. Sound and Meaning Disturbances
11. Linguistic Character of Aphasic Sound-Deafness and Sound-Muteness
II. Stratification of the Phonological System
12. Relative and Absolute Chronology of Phonological Development
13. Minimal Consonantismus and Minimal Vocalismus
14. Identical Laws of Solidarity in the Phonological Development of Child Language and in the Synchrony of the Languages of the World
15. Late or Rare Phonological Acquisitions
16. Relative Degree of Sound Utilization
17. Panchrony of the Laws of Solidarity
18. Laws of Solidarity and Speech Pathology
19. Normal Speech Disturbances
20. Uniformity of Stratification
III. Foundation of the Structural Laws
21.Atomistic Attempts at Explanation
22.Inherent Direction of Development
23. Split Consonant ∾ Vowel
24. Opposition Nasal-Oral in Consonants and Vowels
25. Splitting of Consonants into Labials and Dentals and Vowels into Wide and Narrow
26. Splitting of Consonants into Front and Back
27. Agreements Between the Systems of Sound and Colour
28. Classification and the Structure of Higher Units
29. Place of the Dentals in the Consonant System
30. Secondary Gradations of Phonological Oppositions
IV. Concluding Observations
31. Prospects
32. Glottogony
33. Principle of Language Change
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