The central focus of this text is language development as a field of basic research, but
applied issues are also considered. Chapter 1 provides an overview and history of the field …

Many languages exhibit constraints on prosodic words, where lexical items must be
composed of at least two moras of structure, or a binary foot. Demuth and Fee (1995) …

CV syllables are believed to be the unmarked canonical syllables, from a synchronic as well
as developmental perspective. According to the well-known Jakobsonian typology, 1 all …

The main objective of this thesis is to study the development of the syllabic structure by a
simultaneous bilingual child in Portuguese and French. The analysis focuses on the patterns …

It has been suggested that language learners prefer phonologically natural patterns over
unnatural ones (McCarthy & Prince, 1995; Tesar & Smolensky, 1993, 2000). Various …

This study examines the vowel systems of German-Spanish bilingual children in order to
determine whether there is interaction between the two language systems. German has a …

Combining the World Englishes framework with First Language Acquisition methodology,
this book investigates children's acquisition of L1 English in the context of multilingual …

Words derive their structure not only from the sounds they include but also from the
organization of those sounds within the word. This organization is the phonotactic level of …

Cette thèse traite de l'acquisition des consonnes par des enfants francophones
monolingues. Son but est de montrer que l'utilisation des traits distinctifs et des principes qui …

Phonological representation for adult speakers is generally assumed to include sub-lexical
information at the level of the phoneme. Some have suggested, however, that young …