168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book provides an analysis of two theories of language acquisition: the theory that acquisition is primarily mediated by innate properties of language provided by universal grammar, and the opposing theory that language is acquired based on the patterns in the ambient language. A problem not often considered is that these two theories are confounded because the structures that are frequent... Read more
1. Accounts of acquisition: Universal Grammar and the input 2. Cross-linguistic codas 3. English codas 4. Child language codas 5. Experiment 1: Two-year-olds’ production of coda consonants 6. Experiment 2: Two-year-olds’ production of coda consonants and phonotactic probability 7. Coda acquisition: Discussion and conclusion
Biography
Tania S. Zamuner received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Arizona in 2001. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands and is researching infants' acquisition of language at the Baby Research Center of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
