Methodological questions in studying consonant acquisition

Methodological questions in studying consonant acquisition.

Consonant mastery is one of the most widely used metrics of typical phonological acquisition and of phonological disorder. Two fundamental methodological questions concerning research on consonant acquisition are (1) how to elicit a representative sample of productions and (2) how to analyse this sample once it has been collected. This paper address these two questions by reviewing relevant asp...

Consonant Acquisition, Frequency, and Function

* University of Antwerp, Department of Linguistics, CLiPS Research Center ** Hasselt University, Database and Theoretical Computer Sciences Research Group *** University of Antwerp, Institute for Education and Information Sciences and Statistical Centre of the University of Antwerp (StatuUA) Acknowledgements: We would like to thank the children and their families who participated in this study....

Methodological issues for studying asexuality.

To date, asexuality has received little research attention and methodological issues for studying this population remain largely unaddressed. Studies have drawn on existing approaches and instruments and what asexuals themselves have learned in discoursing with each other has not always been consistently taken into account in research designs. I discuss operational definitions, sampling problem...

Simplification Strategies in the Acquisition of Consonant Clusters in Hebrew

Consonant Acquisition in Taiwanese: A Functional Optimality-Theoretic Account

This is a case study of a child acquiring Taiwanese as her first language, attempting to model the phonological error patterns as well as output variation based on an optimality-theoretic (hereafter OT) analysis for her initial consonant acquisition. Driven by the fact that children usually do not produce one single output form that is identical to adults’, and the rule-based approach would fur...