Optimality Theory, Phonological Acquisition and Disorders - Daniel A. Dinnsen
12 Gapped s-cluster inventories and faithfulness to the marked
Optimality Theory, Phonological Acquisition and Disorders - Daniel A. Dinnsen
Ashley W. Farris-Trimble
Judith A. Gierut [+]
Indiana University
Judith A. Gierut is Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences and Cognitive Science and Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the Principal Investigator and Director of the Learnability Project, funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Description
This chapter addresses the issue of whether children produce gapped inventories as they learn languages with harmonically complete inventories, by exploring children’s acquisition of word-initial s-clusters.