Phonological markedness, acquisition and language pathology: what is left of the Jakobsonian legacy?

Typhanie Prince (1) , Jacques Durand (2)

1 LLING - Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes
2 CLLE - Cognition, langues, langage, ergonomie

This chapter looks at some of the phonological theses put forward by Roman Jakobson (1941/1968) concerning language acquisition and language impairment. We argue, with special reference to the French language and on the basis of aphasiological data, that the notion of markedness, which played a central role in Jakobson's work, is still relevant. If built into our representational machinery, markedness can provide an insightful account of the development of phonology and its destructuring and restructuring in various types of aphasia.

Mots clés: distinctive feature; markedness; conduction; single-valued features; binary features; phonology; acquisition; aphasia; Broca; Wernicke; elements; dependency phonology; government phonology; syllable; syllabic constituent

Domaines: Linguistique

Typhanie Prince, Jacques Durand. Phonological markedness, acquisition and language pathology: what is left of the Jakobsonian legacy?. Neuropsycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Cognition, CRC Press, 2015, 9780815356974. ⟨10.4324/9780203797365-11⟩. ⟨halshs-01292259⟩