Constraints in phonological acquisition /

Constraints in phonological acquisition / edited by René Kager, Joe Pater, and Wim Zonneveld. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. - 1 online resource (ix, 417 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Saving the baby : making sure that old data survive new theories -- Markedness and faithfulness constraints in child phonology -- Input elaboration, head faithfulness, and evidence for representation in the acquisition of left-edge clusters in West Germanic -- Phonological acquisition in optimality theory : the early stages -- Syllable types in cross-linguistic and developmental grammars -- Bridging the gap between receptive and productive development with minimally violable constraints -- Learning phonotactic distributions -- Emergence of universal grammar in foreign word adaptations -- The initial and final states : theoretical implications and experimental explorations of richness of the base -- Child word stress competence : an experimental approach.

This outstanding volume presents a state-of-the-art overview of linguistic research into the acquisition of phonology, focusing on constraints in phonological acquisition. An introduction by the editors, providing a brief general tutorial on Optimality Theory, is followed by 10 chapters by well-known researchers in the field.


English.

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Language acquisition.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.
Constraints (Linguistics)
Language Development
Langage--Acquisition.
Contraintes (Linguistique)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Psycholinguistics.
Constraints (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.
Language acquisition.
Constraints (taalkunde)
Taalverwerving.
Fonologie.
Fonologia.
Aquisição da linguagem.
Linguística.


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