Constraints in phonological acquisition / edited by René Kager, Joe Pater, and Wim Zonneveld.

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.

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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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