Phonological Acquisition
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Phonological Acquisition

Child Language and Constraint-Based Grammar

  1. 440 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Phonological Acquisition

Child Language and Constraint-Based Grammar

About this book

In this comprehensive introduction, Anne-Michelle Tessier examines how we acquire the sounds and sound patterns of language. Analyzing child speech patterns and their analogues among adult languages while also teaching the basics of Optimality Theory, this novel textbook will help students develop a broad grammatical understanding of phonological acquisition. Phonological Acquisition provides
- Evidence to support theory from multiple language families, populations and data collection methods
- Connections to lexical, morphological and perceptual learning Assuming only a basic knowledge of phonology, this textbook is aimed at students of linguistics, developmental psychology, speech pathology and communication disorders. It will also be of interest to professional psychologists, acquisition researchers, clinicians, and anyone concerned with child speech development.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Background I: A Phonological Refresher
  10. 2 Background II: Infant Speech Acquisition
  11. 3 Early Phonology: The Shapes of Syllables
  12. 4 Early Phonology: Word Sizes and Shapes
  13. 5 Early Phonology: Consonants
  14. 6 Early Phonology: More Consonants and Phonotactics
  15. 7 Lexical Influences and Interactions in Phonological Learning
  16. 8 Acquiring Morpho-Phonology
  17. 9 Children’s Bilingual Phonological Acquisition
  18. 10 Some OT Theories of Phonological Learning
  19. References
  20. Index of Constraints
  21. Index of Languages
  22. Index of Terms