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fis phenomenon

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.71 in modern English

Syllables
fis phe-nomenon
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The observation that a child's perception of phonemes occurs earlier than the ability to produce them.

Etymology

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.

Questions

What does fis phenomenon mean?
The observation that a child's perception of phonemes occurs earlier than the ability to produce them.
Where does fis phenomenon come from?
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.

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