Acquisition of Phonology

Why this Article is not about the Acquisition of Phonology

0. Introduction In order to understand what is going on when phonology is acquired we clearly need to understand what is being acquired. We need to understand what phonology is, and what aspects of it have to be learned. have deepened our understanding of the phonological component of the human linguistic system, its interfaces with other components and the extent and nature of cross-linguistic...

A psycholinguistic perspective on the acquisition of phonology

This paper discusses the target articles by Fikkert, Vihman, and Goldrick and Larson, which address diverse aspects of the acquisition of phonology. These topics are examined using a wide range of tasks and experimental paradigms across different ages. Various levels of processing and representation are thus involved.The main point of the present paper is that such data can be coherently interp...

The acquisition of phonology by Cantonese-speaking children.

Little is known about the acquisition of phonology by children learning Cantonese as their first language. This paper describes the phoneme repertoires and phonological error patterns used by 268 Cantonese-speaking children aged 2;0 to 6;0, as well as a longitudinal study of tone acquisition by four children aged 1;2 to 2;0. Children had mastered the contrastive use of tones and vowels by two y...

Why cross-linguistic frequency cannot be equated with ease of acquisition in phonology

The acquisition of prosodic phonology and morphology

The comprehension/production dilemma and the development of receptive competence

at the Utrecht phonology workshop on typology and acquisition, also helped crystallize my thoughts on the topic.