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Explore the impact of sublexical pattern frequency on young children's speech production accuracy in this insightful lecture by Mary Beckman from Ohio State University. Delve into research findings that demonstrate how phoneme frequency and phoneme sequence frequency influence children's language acquisition and production. Examine specific experiments comparing Japanese and English-speaking children's pronunciation of lingual stops and the effect of phoneme sequence frequency on non-word repetition accuracy. Discover the correlation between a child's vocabulary size and their ability to abstract phonological patterns. Gain valuable insights into models of phonological competence and its relationship to the lexicon, with implications for understanding language development in young children.
