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Acquiring phonology : a cross-generational case-study /
"Children often mispronounce words when learning their first language. Is it because they cannot perceive the differences that adults make or is it because they can't produce the sounds involved? Neither hypothesis is sufficient on its own to explain the facts. On the basis of detailed ana...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in linguistics ;
124. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminaries. Background ; Phonological theory and phonological acquisition ; perception and production ; Competence and performance ; Levels of adequacy ; Levels of representation and the units of representation ; Learnability ; Universals and innateness ; Continuity
- The main claims of Smith (1973) and the evidence for them. Introduction ; The nature of lexical representations ; Realisation rules ; The role of perception
- Competing theories. Rule-based (generative) theories ; Parameter-setting models ; Constraint-based theories, especially Optimality Theory ; Usage-based and connectionist models ; Interim conclusions
- Z and his development. Family background ; Data and their collection ; Analysis ; Stages of development
- The nature of the acquisition of phonology. Conceptual issues arising from the phonological development of A and Z ; Technical issues arising from the phonological development of A and Z ; A smorgasbord? ; Conclusions and speculations
- Diachronic lexicon of Z data. Table of stages and ages ; Table of sessions and ages ; The lexicon ; Z's repertoire of gestures
- Appendices. Z's cluster production ; Adult English initial clusters and their realisation by Z ; Metalinguistic data ; Inventory of Z's judgements of what various words begin with.