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

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 417 pages) : illustrations
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Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
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Subject Language acquisition.
Language acquisition.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology.
Constraints (Linguistics)
Constraints (Linguistics)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic book.
Congressen (vorm)
Electronic books.
Added Author Kager, René.
Pater, Joe.
Zonneveld, Wim.
Other Form: Print version: Constraints in phonological acquisition. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 0521829631 (DLC) 2003043476 (OCoLC)51566503
ISBN 0511165765 (electronic book)
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