Humans weave phonological patterns instinctively. We form phonological patterns at birth,
we spontaneously generate them de novo, and we impose phonological design on both our …

Background: Children with speech sound disorders (SSD) form a heterogeneous group, with
respect to severity, etiology, proximal causes, speech error characteristics, and response to …

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

Phonological variation of any sort (determined by speech styles, phrasing, or
morphophonological rules) affecting the shapes of words and morphemes are a matter of …

This chapter provides a description of the software tools available through the PhonBank
initiative within CHILDES for corpus-based research on phonological development as well …

Taking an accessible and cross-linguistic approach, Understanding Child Language
Acquisition introduces readers to the most important research on child language acquisition …

Children with specific language impairment (SLI) are particularly sensitive to phonological
complexity in their language. Their performance drops when there are specific phonological …

Child language data have usually been considered as external evidence for linguistic
theory, but they have never had much influence on phonological theory. Yet, the central goal …

A perceptual advantage for iconic forms in infant language learning has been widely
reported in the literature, termed the “sound symbolism bootstrap** hypothesis” by Imai …

The emergence of features plays a key role in any theory of phonological development that
does not assume that they are innately available before the onset of speech. After reviewing …