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Homonymy and reduplication: on the extended availability of two strategies in phonological acquisition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Conxita Lleó
Conxita Lleó*
Affiliation:
University of Hamburg
*
Ibero-amerikanisches Forschungsinstitut, Universität Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 6, 2000 Hamburg 13, West Germany.
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Abstract

In the literature on phonological acquisition certain strategies such as homonymy and reduplication are viewed as phenomena appearing at a very early age, resulting from a deficient sound-inventory and sound-distribution. Data on homonymy and reduplication from a longitudinal study will be considered, which show that: (a) such strategies can appear later in the child's linguistic development than it has been proposed; (b) the lexical item has to be considered a central unit, beyond the earliest stages, in the acquisition of phonology.

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Journal of Child Language , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 1990 , pp. 267 - 278
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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