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UNUSUAL PRODUCTIONS IN PHONOLOGY
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The universalist view of acquisition, which espouses the idea that children’s acquisition of phonology is guided by universal principles, has been the dominant position for decades. However, a growing body of literature during the last two decades on children’s early use of words in various languages has brought into focus the relationship between developmental patterns and language-specific input frequencies. The works in this volume look at these two competing explanations— universal markedness and statistical input conditions—with data from three populations that reveal non-ambient-like productions: typically and atypically developing children, and second language learners.
While the acquisition of first language phonology—typical and atypical—has long been viewed as a legitimate area of inquiry for phonological theory, investigations on second language/interlanguage phonologies have not had the same status. The basic reason for this was the thinking that the non-ambient-like productions of an L2 speaker could be explained with reference to his/her first language. The recognition of L2 phonology as relevant to phonological acquisition and to phonological theory has been a result of a multitude of studies in the last two to three decades; these investigations have revealed that several aspects of non-ambient-like productions in L2 phonologies need to be explained through universal markedness. Although the influence of the learners’ L1 cannot be completely shut out in the explanation of the non-ambient-like productions, increasingly the attention has turned to markedness, especially for speakers with intermediate lev- els of L2.
Mehmet Yavaş - Personal Name
1st Edtion
978-1-315-74282-3
NONE
UNUSUAL PRODUCTIONS IN PHONOLOGY
Psychology
English
2015
USA
1-279
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