caa a22 4500 386359091 CHVBK 20180307111909.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305000900013507 doi S0305000900013507 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305000900013507 Dowker Ann University of Oxford Rhyme and alliteration in poems elicited from young children [Elektronische Daten] [Ann Dowker] Attempts were made to elicit poems from 133 children between the ages of 2 and 6. Seventy-eight of the children produced 606 poems between them. Sixty per cent of the poems contained phonological devices; 42% contained rhyme and 26% contained alliteration. There was no obvious age trend as regards the use of rhyme but the frequency of alliteration declined with age. There were no significant age differences as regards the relative frequency with which different phonemes were manipulated in rhyme and alliteration. The possible functions of such sound-based language play in language development are discussed, with special reference both to children's sound play in crib speech, and to the development of phonological awareness and its importance in learning to read. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/1(1989-02), 181-202 0305-0009 16:1<181 1989 16 JCL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900013507 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900013507 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dowker Ann University of Oxford NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/1(1989-02), 181-202 0305-0009 16:1<181 1989 16 JCL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge