Perspectives on Phonological Theory and Development

1. Foreword and tabula gratulatoria; 2. Introduction (by Chin, Steven B.); 3. Section 1. Representations and contrast: What does the learner know?; 4. Prosodic Licensing and the development of phonological and morphological representations (by Demuth, Katherine); 5. Covert contrast in the acquisition of second language phonology (by Eckman, Fred); 6. Section 2. Sources of individual differences in phonological acquisition; 7. Sibling rivalry: Comparing phonological similarity between twin and non-twin siblings (by Ingram, David); 8. Abstracting phonological generalizations: Evidence from children with disorders (by Gierut, Judith A.); 9. Rapid phonological coding and working memory dynamics in children with cochlear implants: Cognitive foundations of spoken language processing (by Pisoni, David B.); 10. Section 3. Cross-linguistic approaches to phonological acquisition; 11. What guides children's acquisition of #sC clusters?: A cross-linguistic account (by Yavas, Mehmet); 12. The role of phonological context in children's overt marking of '-s' in two dialects of American English (by Barlow, Jessica A.); 13. German settlement varieties in Kansas: Some unusual phonological and morphological developments with the approach of language death (by Keel, William D.); 14. Section 4. Theoretical advances in the field: Constraint-based approaches; 15. The role of onsets in primary and secondary stress patterns (by McGarrity, Laura W.); 16. A faithfulness conspiracy: The selection of unfaithful mappings in Amahl's grammar (by Farris-Trimble, Ashley W.); 17. Superadditivity and limitations on syllable complexity in Bambara words (by Green, Christopher R.); 18. Author index; 19. Subject index