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Implementation Of Sound Opposition In Children's Speech

2020; Linguagem: Inglês

10.15405/epsbs.2020.08.3

2357-1330

Bolat Khassenov, Lilia Nefedova, Almagul Adilova,

Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies

Problems of children's speech are considered in pedagogy, psychology, and linguistics. With the advent of new technologies in recent years, new approaches have been proposed in research on the development of sounds by children, the formation of adult speech and bilingualism in children. The works of some scholars are devoted to sound opposition in children’s speech. In our opinion, the very first such (archetypical) opposition related to binarismexists in the babble speech of children and this is a combination of the consonant ң-ŋ (нга-nga) and the vowel ә (оа, оэе, ае), then other sound oppositions appear. In the babble speech of children, each of the sound oppositions к-г (k-g), т-д (t-d), п-б (p-b), м-у (m-w), н-л (n-l) appears simultaneously and instinctively, albeit in a certain sequence. These consonant sounds are common and universal for all languages, and on the basis of precisely these sounds, words common to all languages are formed (mаmа [mәmә], bаbа [bәbә], tata [tәtә], dada[dәdә], nana [nәnә]). The existence of natural sound oppositions and their unconsciousness allows us to hypothesize that language is an instinctive phenomenon. This is confirmed by numerous mythological, symbolic, graphic, ethnographic, archaeological materials cited in various studies in different languages at different times.