List of contributors = vii
Preface = ix
1. Introduction Rene
Kager, Joe Pater and Wim Zonneveld = 1
2. Saving the baby: making sure that old data survive new theories Lise Menn = 54
3. Markedness and faithfulness constraints in child phonology Amalia Gnanadesikan = 73
4. Input elaboration, head faithfulness and evidence for representation in the acquisition of left-edge clusters in West Germanic Heather Goad and Yvan Rose = 109
5. Phonological acquisition in Optimality Theory: the early stages Bruce Hayes = 158
6. Syllable types in cross-linguistic and developmental grammars Clara C. Levelt and Ruben van de Vijver = 204
7. Bridging the gap between receptive and productive development with minimally violable constraints Joe Pater = 219
8. Learning phonotactic distributions Alan Prince and Bruce Tesar
= 245
9. Emergence of Universal Grammar in foreign word adaptions Shigeko Shinohara = 292
10. The initial and final states: theoretical implications and experimental explorations of Richness of the Base Paul Smolensky, Lisa Davidson and Peter Jusczyk = 321
11. Child word stress competence: an experimental approach Wim Zonneveld and Dominique Nouveau. = 369
Preface = ix
1. Introduction Rene
Kager, Joe Pater and Wim Zonneveld = 1
2. Saving the baby: making sure that old data survive new theories Lise Menn = 54
3. Markedness and faithfulness constraints in child phonology Amalia Gnanadesikan = 73
4. Input elaboration, head faithfulness and evidence for representation in the acquisition of left-edge clusters in West Germanic Heather Goad and Yvan Rose = 109
5. Phonological acquisition in Optimality Theory: the early stages Bruce Hayes = 158
6. Syllable types in cross-linguistic and developmental grammars Clara C. Levelt and Ruben van de Vijver = 204
7. Bridging the gap between receptive and productive development with minimally violable constraints Joe Pater = 219
8. Learning phonotactic distributions Alan Prince and Bruce Tesar
= 245
9. Emergence of Universal Grammar in foreign word adaptions Shigeko Shinohara = 292
10. The initial and final states: theoretical implications and experimental explorations of Richness of the Base Paul Smolensky, Lisa Davidson and Peter Jusczyk = 321
11. Child word stress competence: an experimental approach Wim Zonneveld and Dominique Nouveau. = 369