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Book: Optimality Theory, Phonological Acquisition and Disorders

Chapter: 11 Experimental instantiations of implicational universals in phonological acquisition

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.21491

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This chapter reports the results of four experiments testing the predictions of two purported universals associated with onset clusters.A first prediction is that the occurrence of true clusters implies the occurrence of affricates, as based on the patterns of first language acquisition. A second is that the occurrence of Consonant+Liquid clusters implies the occurrence of a contrast between /l r/, as based on the patterns of second language acquisition.

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