Marilyn Vihman
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marilyn Vihman is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0928-1533
2025 The acquisition of Estonian phonology First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages, Kirjavainen, Minna, Ágnes Lukács and Virve-Anneli Vihman (eds.), pp. 18–57 | Chapter
As few studies of Estonian phonological development are so far available, this chapter presents new analyses of data (available on CHILDES) from two Estonian children followed longitudinally over the last half of their second year; both were producing over 100 words in 30–40 minutes of… read more
2018 Chapter 10. The development of prosodic structure: A usage-based approach The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition, Prieto, Pilar and Núria Esteve-Gibert (eds.), pp. 185–206 | Chapter
Scholarly views are divided as to the source of children’s knowledge of prosodic structure. Within the framework of a usage-based approach, this chapter compares prosodic structures in children learning four languages at the end of the single-word period in order to identify sources of both… read more
2018 Chapter 1. Templates in child language Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition: Languages, contexts, and learners, Hickmann, Maya †, Edy Veneziano and Harriet Jisa (eds.), pp. 27–44 | Chapter
To what extent do developmental templates, or idiosyncratic child word patterns, reflect (i) universal tendencies of neurophysiologically grounded production, (ii) perceptually-based guidance due to the frequency of occurrence in input speech or to the rhythmic patterning of the adult language, or… read more
2011 Features in child phonology: Inherent, emergent, or artefacts of analysis? Where Do Phonological Features Come From?: Cognitive, physical and developmental bases of distinctive speech categories, Clements, G. Nick and Rachid Ridouane (eds.), pp. 261–302 | Article
The emergence of features plays a key role in any theory of phonological development that does not assume that they are innately available before the onset of speech. After reviewing Jakobson’s claims for universal orders of emergence, we consider possible criteria for feature or segment… read more
2011 From first words to segments: A case study in phonological development Experience, Variation and Generalization: Learning a first language, Arnon, Inbal and Eve V. Clark (eds.), pp. 109–134 | Article
The emergence and later fading of two phonological templates – a ‘palatal’ template and consonant harmony – are investigated in the first 500 words produced by a child acquiring Estonian and English. Throughout the period the child's use of palatal forms, in particular, considerably exceeds their… read more
2008 5. The onset of word form recognition: A behavioural and neurophysiological study Early Language Development: Bridging brain and behaviour, Friederici, Angela D. and Guillaume Thierry (eds.), pp. 115–135 | Article
2002 The role of mirror neurons in the ontogeny of speech Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Brain and Language, Stamenov, Maxim I. and Vittorio Gallese (eds.), pp. 307–316 | Article
1980 Sound change and child language Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Stanford, March 26–30 1979, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, Rebecca Labrum and Susan C. Shepherd (eds.), pp. 303–320 | Article