Tania Zamuner

Input-based Phonological Acquisition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780415967891
• ISBN-10: 0415967899
• Artikelnr.: 21556553

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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