Phonological Development

Marilyn Vihman is Associate Professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders at Southeastern Louisiana University. From 1980 to 1988 she was Director of the Child Phonology Project at Stanford University.

List of figures. List of tables. Acknowledgments. Conventions. 1. Introduction. 2. Theoretical Perspectives. 3. Infant Speech Perception: Initial Capacities. 4. Infant Speech Perception: Developmental Change. 5. Infant Vocal Production. 6. The Transition to Language. 7. Linguistic Perception, Word Recognition, and Phonological Representations. 8. Advances in Phonological Development. Appendices. References. Index.