Unusual Productions in Phonology

The universalist view that acquisition of phonology is guided by universal principles has been the dominant position for decades. More recently, an alternative view has brought into focus the relationship between developmental markedness and language-specific input frequencies. With entirely original chapters on non-ambient-like productions by typically and atypically developing children, and second language learners, Unusual Productions in Phonology delves deeply into these competing explanations to show that patterns observed do not uniquely lend themselves to one or the other explanations. Rather, they point towards the need for both universal markedness and statistical input considerations in any attempted explanation. Containing contributions from leading researchers from around the world, this impressive collection is a must-have resource for any researcher, practitioner, or advanced student specializing in phonology, cognitive psychology, applied linguistics, and communication disorders.

Mehmet Yavas is a Professor of Linguistics at Florida International University. He has published numerous articles on applied phonology and is the principal author of Avaliação Fonologica da Criança (1990), a phonological assessment procedure for Brazilian Portuguese. His other publications include Phonological Disorders in Children (1991), First and Second Language Phonology (1994), Phonology: Development and Disorders (1998), and Applied English Phonology (3rd edition forthcoming).

- Sonority Principles Meet Probabilistic Phonotactics in Lexical Development, Judith Gierut, Michele Morrisette & Katherine Brown - Phonological Patterns in the Lexical Development of French, Tania Zamuner, Elizabeth Morin-Lessard & Natacha Bouchat-Laird - Development of Word-initial Consonant Clusters in Valley Zapotec: Universal vs. Language-Specific Effects of Sonority, Joseph Paul Stemberger & Mario E. Chavez-Peo n - Markedness in First Language Acquisition, Paula Reimers - A Comparison of Fricative Production in German and Canadian English-speaking Children with Protracted Phonological Development, B.M. Bernhardt, R. Romonath, & J.P. Stemberger - Pre- and Post-Treatment Production of Syllable-Initial /-/ clusters by Children Speaking Quebec-French, Susan Rvachew & FranC oise Brosseau-Lapre - Children's Incipient Conspiracies, Daniel A. Dinnsen, Judith Gierut & Michele Morrisette - When Place does not Fall into Place: A Case Study of a Child with Diverse Linguistic Input, Margaret Kehoe - The Production of /sC/ Onsets in a Markedness Relationship: Investigating the Ontogeny and Phylogeny Model with Longitudinal Data, Robert S. Carlisle & Juan Antonio Cutillas Espinosa - The Role of Input Frequency, Universals, and L1 Transfer in the Acquisition of English L2 Onsets by Native Speakers of Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, and Vietnamese, Jette G. Hansen Edwards - Stop VOT Productions by Young Bilingual Spanish-English Children and Their Monolingual Peers, Amanda L. Procter, Ferench Bunta & Rachel Aghara - Production of Long Lag Stops in Early Sequential Spanish-English Bilinguals, Mehmet Yavas & Emily Byers