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Gillis, Steven; De Schutter, Georges – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Investigated whether children's syllabification of Dutch disyllabic words with a single intervocalic consonant adhered to the universal principles of syllable structure and whether these syllabifications witnessed an overruling of the universal phonological constraints by language-specific ones. Results indicate that universal principles explain…
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Dutch, Elementary Education