Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword and tabula gratulatoria vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Section 1. Representations and contrast
6. Prosodic Licensing and the development of phonological and morphological representations 11
7. Covert contrast in the acquisition of second language phonology 25
8. Section 2. Sources of individual differences in phonological acquisition
9. Sibling rivalry 53
10. Abstracting phonological generalizations 71
11. Rapid phonological coding and working memory dynamics in children with cochlear implants 91
12. Section 3. Cross-linguistic approaches to phonological acquisition
13. What guides children’s acquisition of #sC clusters? 115
14. The role of phonological context in children’s overt marking of ‘-s’ in two dialects of American English 133
15. German settlement varieties in Kansas 155
16. Section 4. Theoretical advances in the field
17. The role of onsets in primary and secondary stress patterns 175
18. A faithfulness conspiracy 199
19. Superadditivity and limitations on syllable complexity in Bambara words 223
20. Author index 249
21. Subject index 253