Rene Kager

Constraints in Phonological Acquisition

Herausgeber: Kager, Rene; Pater, Joe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Short description/annotation
State-of-the-art overview of linguistic research into acquisition of phonology, focusing on constraints in phonological acquisition.

Main description
This outstanding volume presents a state-of-the-art 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.

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 844g
• ISBN-13: 9780521829632
• ISBN-10: 0521829631
• Artikelnr.: 21572056

Autorenporträt

René Kager is Associate Professor of Language Development at Utrecht University. His books include A Metrical Theory of Stress and Destressing in Dutch (1989), The Prosody-Morphology Interface (with H. van der Hulst and W. Zonneveld, Cambridge 1999) and Optimality Theory (Cambridge, 1999).
Joe Pater is Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has published in a number of journals including Phonology, Language Acquisition and the Journal of Child Language.
Wim Zonneveld is Professor of Linguistics and Phonology at Utrecht University. He is the author of A Formal Theory of Exceptions in Generative Phonology (1978), Klemtoon & Metrische Fonologie (with M. Trommelen, Couthinho, 1989) and Prosody-Morphology Interface (with R. Kager and H. van der Hulst, Cambridge 1999).

Inhaltsangabe

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.