Truncation Without Shape Constraints: The Latter Stages of Prosodic Acquisition  

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Kehoe, Margaret M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 8 no. 1 (2000), page 23-68.
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This article evaluates the claim ofunifonn size and shape restrictions in prosodic development using a cross-sectional database of English-speaking children's multisyllabic word productions. Several of the youngest children in the study were limited by a bisyllabic output constraint, consistent with I stress-foot, and one of the oldest children produced output fonns, consistent with 2 stress-feet, suggesting that unifonn shape may occur at the earliest stages of prosodic development and on an individual basis for certain children. In the majority of cases, however, input-output correspondence between stressed and word-final syllables played the greatest role in explaining output patterns. Consequently, the article explores optimality accounts of truncation that do not assume a size restriction. Children's increasing faithfulness to unstressed syllables can be explained by different constraint rankings that relate to edge alignment, syllable structure, and foot structure.

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