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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kager, René, editor.

Pater, Joe, editor.

Zonneveld, Wim, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Constraints (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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

OCLC:

560103727