Optimality Theory, Phonological Acquisition and Disorders - Daniel A. Dinnsen
4 A typology of opacity effects in acquisition
Optimality Theory, Phonological Acquisition and Disorders - Daniel A. Dinnsen
Daniel A. Dinnsen [+]
Indiana University
Daniel A. Dinnsen is Chancellor’s Professor of Linguistics and Adjunct Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is also a member of the Program in Cognitive Science and core faculty of the NIH Training Grant in Speech, Hearing, and Sensory Communication. He is Co-Principal Investigator of the Learnability Project, funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Description
This chapter presents data and analyses for several different emergent opacity effects and situates them in a larger typology. Primary attention is given to a case study involving the emergence and loss of an opaque generalization in the phonology of a child with a phonological delay.