Frank Wijnen
Department of Linguistics
University of Utrecht
f.n.k.wijnen@uu.nl
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Frank Wijnen Department of Linguistics University of Utrecht f.n.k.wijnen@uu.nl |
| Participants: | 1 |
| Type of Study: | case study |
| Location: | Netherlands |
| Media type: | Wijnen is working on audio |
| DOI: | doi:10.21415/T5FG7K |
Wijnen, F. (1990). On the development of language production mechanisms. Doctoral Dissertation. Katholieke Universiteit te Nijmegen. Downloaded from: https://hdl.handle.net/2066/113814
Wijnen, F. (1992). Incidental word and sound errors in young speakers. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 734–755.
Elbers, L., & Wijnen, F. (1992). Effort, production skill, and language learning. In C. Ferguson, L. Menn, & C. Stoel-Gammon (Eds.), Phonological development: Models, research, implications, Parkton, MD: York.
Wijnen, F. (1995). Incremental acquisition of phrase structure. In M. Beckman et al. (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 25, pp. 105-18. Amherst, MA.
Wijnen, F. (1998). The temporal interpretation of Dutch children’s root infinitivals: the effect of eventivity. First Language, 18(54), 379-402.
Wijnen, F. & Verrips, M. (1998). The acquisition of Dutch syntax. In S. Gillis & A. De Houwer (Ed.), The Acquisition of Dutch (pp. 223-300). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.52.07wij
Wijnen, F. (1988). Spontaneous word fragmentations in children: Evidence for the syllable as a unit in speech production. Journal of Phonetics, 16, 187–202.
Wijnen, F. (2000). Input, intake and sequence in syntactic development. In M. Beers, B. van de Bogaerde, G. Bol, J. de Jong & C. Rooijmans (eds.), From sound to sentence. Studies on first language acquisition, pp. 163–186. Groningen: Centre for Language and Cognition.
Wijnen F. (1997). Functionele categorieën in Nederlandse kindertaal. Nederlandse Taalkunde, 3, 178–198.
Niek was a slow starter in language, both with respect to grammar and to phonology. The first sample in the corpus, at age 2;7, yields an MLU (in words) of 1.72. Some details of Niek’s grammatical development are given in Wijnen (1988). Further information is available on request. Niek’s phonological development was also slow. Particularly, he persisted in various substitution processes, most notably “fronting,” that is, substituting alveolar consonants for back obstruents and clusters. This behavior gradually disappeared during the period of observation. At approximately age 4;6, he had developed into a fluent and competent speaker, intelligible for adults other than his parents.
The recordings were generally made in unstructured settings. Usually, the target child and an adult interlocutor (mostly the father) were engaged in some normal everyday routine: playing (often with Legos), looking through picture books, and so forth.
Some 31 hours of recordings were collected. A subset of these, amounting to 23 hours, were transcribed. The presence of participants other than one of the parents, as well as other salient or exceptional characteristics of the tapings are mentioned in the “Remarks” column. Additional aspects of the coding and transcription techniques can be found in the description of the Utrecht corpus.
The data files are labeled in accordance with the participant’s age at the date of recording. For instance, “nie31017.cha” represents the recording made at age 3;10.17.