13 A typological evaluation of the split-margin approach to syllable structure in phonological acquisition
Optimality Theory, Phonological Acquisition and Disorders - Daniel A. Dinnsen
Jessica A. Barlow [+ ]
San Diego State University
Jessica Barlow is Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at
San Diego State University in California, USA. Her research focuses on phonological
acquisition, phonological theory and phonological disorders, with
an emphasis on English, Spanish and Spanish-English bilingualism. Most
recently she has been focusing on morphophonology in acquisition. Her
research has been published in such journals as Bilingualism: Language &
Cognition; Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics; Frontiers in Psychology; Journal of
Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Language Acquisition; and Lingua.
She is co-editor, with Ashley Farris-Trimble, of Perspectives on phonological
theory and acquisition: In honor of Daniel A. Dinnsen (2014).
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 evaluates the typological predictions of the split-margin approach to syllable structure, an elaboration of the Margin Hierarchy which distinguishes different sonority preferences of subsyllabic structure.