Phonological Templates in Development

by Marilyn May Vihman

This book explores the role of phonological templates in early language use from the perspective of usage-based phonology and exemplar models and within the larger developmental framework of Dynamic Systems Theory. After analysing children's first words and their adult targets, Vihman sets out procedures for establishing the children's later prosodic structures and templates, drawing on data from American and British English, Estonian, Finnish, French,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198793561
• ISBN13: 9780198793564
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"