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1Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-7002, USA. gierut@indiana.edu
Abstract:
The relationship between perception and production remains an unresolved issue within the study of phonological acquisition. Recent developments in optimality theory offer potentially new solutions to this long-standing problem; but thus far, the proposals that have been advanced are in the absence of actual perception-production data from a given child. This paper provides an empirical instantiation of the perception-production effects by appealing to data from children's knowledge and use of syllables and segments. The demonstration shows that optimality theoretic accounts of the perception-production interface hold in part, but a crucial modification is required in order to obtain the full range of effects that are observed in phonological acquisition.
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