fis phenomenon
nounEtymology
From an incident reported in 1960 by J. Berko and R. Brown. A child referred to his inflatable plastic fish as a fis, but rejected adults' statements that used the same mispronunciation.
Definitions
The observation that a child's perception of phonemes occurs earlier than the ability to…
The observation that a child's perception of phonemes occurs earlier than the ability to produce them.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for fis phenomenon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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