Allophony and Allomorphy Cue Phonological Acquisition: Evidence from the European Portuguese vowel system
| Autor: | Paula Fikkert, Maria João Freitas |
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| Jazyk: | Catalan; Valencian |
| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Linguistics and Language
Context (language use) P1-1091 Language and Linguistics Vowel alternations European Portuguese Alternances vocàliques Vowel Allomorph Philology. Linguistics Learnability Al·lofonia acquisition Phonology vowel alternations allophony Linguistics language.human_language Variation (linguistics) Acquisition Phonological rule Allophony Adquisició de la fonologia Portuguès europeu language Sistema vocàlic portuguès Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Catalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 5, Iss 1 (2006) Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| ISSN: | 2014-9719 1695-6885 |
| Popis: | The acquisition of morphophonological alternations is hardly investigated in phonology (Macken 1995, Bernhardt & Stemberger 1998, Hayes 2004, Kerkhoff 2004). Learnability models of phonological alternations often assume that allophonic variation is easy to learn, as it usually follows from the phonology of the language (Peperkamp & Dupoux 2002, Hayes 2004). On the other hand, these models assume that allomorphic variation is acquired late and learners often show paradigm uniformity at the early stages of development. In our study of longitudinal data of seven European Portuguese children, aged between 0;11 and 3;7, we investigate the acquisition vowel alternations and show that children start acquiring those very early. In particular, children even seem to distinguish vowels in neutralized context to a large extent. We argue that children acquire the abstract phonological vowel system of European Portuguese very early, precisely because of the large amount of systematic variation in the input. We will provide empirical evidence for the claim that the phonological processes in the language help children to set up the abstract vowel system of European Portuguese. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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