Constraints in Phonological Acquisition
Constraints in Phonological Acquisition
René Kager, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Joe Pater, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Wim Zonneveld, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Joe Pater, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Wim Zonneveld, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
April 2009
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9780521108645
Bringing together well-known researchers, this collection of essays focuses on constraints in phonological acquisition. The first two chapters review the research in its broader context, including an introduction by the editors that provides a concise tutorial on Optimality Theory. The remaining chapters address a number of partially overlapping themes: the study of child production data in terms of constraints; learnability issues; perceptual development and its relation to the development of production; and second language acquisition.
- Overview of state-of-the-art research in phonological acquisition
- Contributions by well-known researchers (Hayes, Jusczyk, Menn, Prince, Smolensky, Tesar)
- Introduction offers a bird's-eye view of research leading up to current situation
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"This outstanding volume presents a state-of-the-art overview of linguistic research into the acquisitions of phonology."
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February 2004Hardback
9780521829632
428 pages
229 × 152 × 27 mm
0.8kg
105 tables
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Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1. Introduction René Kager, Joe Pater and Wim Zonneveld
- 2. Saving the baby: making sure that old data survive new theories Lise Menn
- 3. Markedness and faithfulness constraints in child phonology Amalia Gnanadesikan
- 4. Input elaboration, head faithfulness and evidence for representation in the acquisition of left-edge clusters in West Germanic Heather Goad and Yvan Rose
- 5. Phonological acquisition in Optimality Theory: the early stages Bruce Hayes
- 6. Syllable types in cross-linguistic and developmental grammars Clara C. Levelt and Ruben van de Vijver
- 7. Bridging the gap between receptive and productive development with minimally violable constraints Joe Pater
- 8. Learning phonotactic distributions Alan Prince and Bruce Tesar
- 9. Emergence of Universal Grammar in foreign word adaptions Shigeko Shinohara
- 10. The initial and final states: theoretical implications and experimental explorations of Richness of the Base Paul Smolensky, Lisa Davidson and Peter Jusczyk
- 11. Child word stress competence: an experimental approach Wim Zonneveld and Dominique Nouveau.
