A01=Tania Zamuner
Ambient Language
Author_Tania Zamuner
Category=CFDC
Child Directed Speech Corpus
child speech production
Children's Lexical Representations
Children's Spontaneous Productions
childrens
Children’s Lexical Representations
Children’s Spontaneous Productions
coda
Coda Consonants
codas
consonants
corpus linguistics
cross-linguistic analysis
Cross-linguistic Markedness
CV Syllable
cvc
CVC Word
DAT Recorder
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eq_dictionaries-language-reference
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eq_isMigrated=2
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experimental studies of coda acquisition
Faithfulness Constraints
Headturn Preference Procedure
High Phonotactic Probability
language development
Language Specific Input
Low Phonotactic Probabilities
MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory
Markedness Constraints
Obstruent Codas
Perceptual Ease
phonotactic
phonotactic probability
probability
productions
Real Word Response
sonorant
Sonorant Codas
Specific Phonological Feature
Ugh
universal grammar theory
Word Final Codas
Word Final Consonants
words
Product details
- ISBN 9781138972803
- Weight: 226g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book provides an analysis of two theories of language acquisition: the theory that acquisition is primarily mediated by innate properties of language provided by universal grammar, and the opposing theory that language is acquired based on the patterns in the ambient language. A problem not often considered is that these two theories are confounded because the structures that are frequent across languages are also typically the most frequent within a specific language. In addition, the innate theory of language acquisition is difficult to quantify and qualify. Using cross-linguistic, corpus and experimental approaches, this book attempts to contrast these theories through an examination of the acquisition of word-final consonants in English.
Tania S. Zamuner received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Arizona in 2001. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands and is researching infants' acquisition of language at the Baby Research Center of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
