caa a22 4500 386359202 CHVBK 20180307111909.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305000900010461 doi S0305000900010461 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305000900010461 Cowan Nelson University of Missouri, Columbia Acquisition of Pig Latin: a case study [Elektronische Daten] [Nelson Cowan] A boy's acquisition of Pig Latin was monitored throughout the year preceding first grade. Abilities underlying this game include the identification of words, deletion of the first syllabic onset (i.e. prevocalic consonants) of each word, blending of this onset and the suffix [e1] onto the word's end, and short-term memory for speech units. Performance improved over time as the underlying abilities developed. Meanwhile, various informative errors were made. Throughout most of the study, onsets that were correctly removed from a word's beginning were often added to its end incorrectly; unstressed function words were repeated intact and not transformed; and the first syllabic onset was overlooked when the syllable was unstressed. Because speech games like this one depend upon basic language skills, they can clarify aspects of ordinary language development. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/2(1989-06), 365-386 0305-0009 16:2<365 1989 16 JCL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010461 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010461 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cowan Nelson University of Missouri, Columbia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/2(1989-06), 365-386 0305-0009 16:2<365 1989 16 JCL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge