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Direct linkTessier, Anne-Michelle – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2012
This article provides experimental evidence for the claim in Hayes (2004) and McCarthy (1998) that language learners are biased to assume that morphological paradigms should be phonologically-uniform--that is, that derived words should retain all the phonological properties of their bases. The evidence comes from an artificial language…
Descriptors: Test Items, Phonemes, Phonology, Artificial Languages
Berent, Iris; Harder, Katherine; Lennertz, Tracy – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2011
Across languages, onsets with large sonority distances are preferred to those with smaller distances (e.g., "bw greater than bd greater than lb"; Greenberg 1978). Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 2004) attributes such facts to grammatical restrictions that are universally active in all grammars. To test this hypothesis, here we…
Descriptors: Language Universals, Phonology, Preschool Children, Language Research
