Optimality Theory, Phonological Acquisition and Disorders - Daniel A. Dinnsen
11 Experimental instantiations of implicational universals in phonological acquisition
Optimality Theory, Phonological Acquisition and Disorders - Daniel A. Dinnsen
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 reports the results of four experiments testing the predictions of two purported universals associated with onset clusters.A first prediction is that the occurrence of true clusters implies the occurrence of affricates, as based on the patterns of first language acquisition. A second is that the occurrence of Consonant+Liquid clusters implies the occurrence of a contrast between /l r/, as based on the patterns of second language acquisition.