Variation in children’s early production of multisyllabic words: The case of truncations
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Typically unstressed non-final syllables in the adult target words are truncated (see Fikkert, 1994 for Dutch; Echols & Newport, 1992, Gerken, 1994 and Kehoe & Stoel-Gammon, 1997 for English; Lleo & Demuth, 1999 for German and Spanish). How can this phenomenon be explained? In the literature two possible sources for truncations have been established: the child’s lexical representation (‘a lexicon account’), and the child’s grammar (‘a grammar account’).
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