Syllable types in cross-linguistic and developmental grammars

The Interaction of Language‐Specific and Universal Factors During the Acquisition of Morphophonemic Alternations With Exceptions

“…To capture the degree of success in negative learners, we need to understand that acquisition of a phonological pattern just like the one under investigation involves an intermediate second step: the realization that there is a dependency between the two vowels based on certain features. Research agrees that learning is a stepwise procedure (Levelt & van de Vijver, 2004) and so we assume that we are observing such a development here. After the first step in learning-the identification of two allomorphs-which all of our participants successfully discovered, there is a second step, which is the discovery that the choice of the allomorph is dependent on some characteristic of the stem vowel (here: backness or tenseness determines the backness of the suffix).…”

Insights into variation across children based on longitudinal Dutch data on phonological acquisition

“…As has been noted before there are two main developmental orders for the acquisition of syllable types. Levelt and van der Vijver () provide the following picture:…”

“…The CLPF database has been used to investigate the acquisition of diverse phenomena, such as various aspects of syllable structure (e.g., Fikkert ; Levelt, Schiller & Levelt /2000; Levelt & van de Vijver ; Levelt ), word stress (e.g., Fikkert ; Demuth , ; Taelman & Gillis ), Place of Articulation (Levelt ; Fikkert & Levelt ), Voicing (Kager et al ; Van der Feest ), Manner of Articulation (Altvater‐Mackensen ; Altvater‐Mackensen & Fikkert, ; Altvater‐Mackensen & Fikkert under revision), intonation (Chen & Fikkert ), segment inventories (Levelt & van Oostendorp ) and the realization of schwa (Levelt ). Those investigations typically report a general pattern of development that holds for most children, but also often mention variation in development both in terms of timing and pathways.…”

Discutindo as Restrições De Marcação Posicional: Uma Proposta De Formalização Da Diferença De Ponto De Articulação Em Coda

“…Para exemplifi car, podemos pensar no processo de aquisição de L1. Uma grande gama de autores (DEMUTH 1995, LEVELT 1995, PATER & PARADIS 1996, SMOLENSKY 1996, GNANADESIKAN 2004, LEVELT & VAN DE VIJVER 2004, DAVIDSON et al 2004 Sob nossa proposta, através de restrições de caráter estringente, nenhuma estipulação de ranking fi xo é necessária: na implementação computacional do algoritmo, todas as restrições, no primeiro estágio de aquisição de L1, podem ser consideradas com os mesmos valores numéricos, sem que rankings fi xos extrínsicos precisem ser estipulados. As relações hierárquicas entre as restrições são resgatadas pelas próprias marcas de violação incorridas por cada uma dessas restrições que formam conjuntos estringentes, de modo que tais relações hierárquicas se façam sentir a partir da própria descrição estrutural da restrição, sem nada mais ser necessário.…”