The acquisition of phonology based on input: A closer look at the relation of cross-linguistic and child language data

Lingua

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1403-1426

  Zamuner, Tania S ^a   Gerken, LouAnn ^b   Hammond, Michael ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Input; Phonology; Universal grammar

Indexed keywords

EID: 13844292617     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2004.06.005     Document Type: Article

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