Optimality Theory, Phonological Acquisition and Disorders - Daniel A. Dinnsen
5 An unusual error pattern reconsidered
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.
Ashley W. Farris-Trimble
Description
This chapter reconsiders a challenging case of an unusual error pattern documented by Leonard and Brown (1984). T (age 3;8) replaced all word-final consonants with [s] but more importantly inserted [s] after word-final vowels. The purpose of this chapter is to show that optimality theory offers a fresh perspective on this error pattern and its subsequent course of development.