The Emergence of Phonology

1. Introduction Marilyn M. Vihman and Tamar Keren-Portnoy Part I. The Current Framework: 2. Phonological development: toward a 'radical' templatic phonology Marilyn Vihman and William Croft Part II. Setting Papers: 3. Child phonology: a prosodic view Natalie Waterson 4. Words and sounds in early language acquisition Charles A. Ferguson and Carol B. Farwell 5. Developmental reorganization of phonology: a hierarchy of basic units of acquisition Marlys A. Macken 6. Development of articulatory, phonetic, and phonological capabilities Lise Menn Part III. Cross-Linguistic Studies: 7. One idiosyncratic strategy in the acquisition of phonology T. M. S. Priestly 8. Phonological reorganization: a case study Marilyn M. Vihman and Shelley L. Velleman 9. How abstract is child phonology? Towards an integration of linguistic and psychological approaches Marilyn M. Vihman, Shelley L. Velleman and Lorraine McCune 10. Beyond early words: word template development in Brazilian Portuguese Daniela Oliveira-Guimaraes 11. Templates in French Sophie Wauquier and Naomi Yamaguchi 12. The acquisition of consonant clusters in Polish: a case study Marta Szreder 13. Geminate template: a model for first Finnish words Tuula Savinainen-Makkonen 14. Influence of geminate structure on early Arabic templatic patterns Ghada Khattab and Jalal Al-Tamimi 15. Lexical frequency effects on phonological development: the case of word production in Japanese Mitsuhiko Ota Part IV. Perspectives and Challenges: 16. A view from developmental psychology Lorraine McCune 17. Challenges to theories, charges to a model: the linked-attractor model of phonological development Lise Menn, Ellen Schmidt and Brent Nicholas.