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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457881003321

Titolo

Constraints in phonological acquisition / / edited by René Kager, Joe Pater, and Wim Zonneveld [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14788-3

1-280-43726-X

0-511-18418-2

0-511-16576-5

0-511-16383-5

0-511-48641-3

0-511-31274-1

0-511-16463-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 417 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

401/.93

Soggetti

Language acquisition

Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology

Constraints (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This outstanding 2004 volume presents an overview of linguistic



research into the acquisition of phonology. Bringing together well-known researchers in the field, it focuses on constraints in phonological acquisition (as opposed to rules), and offers concrete examples of the formalization of phonological development in terms of constraint ranking. The first two chapters situate the research in its broader context, with an introduction by the editors providing a brief general tutorial on Optimality Theory. Chapter two serves to highlight the history of constraints in studies of phonological development, which predates their current ascent to prominence in phonological 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.