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Peer reviewedKehoe, Margaret M. – Language Acquisition, 2000
Evaluates the claim of uniform size and shape restrictions in prosodic development using a cross-sectional database of English-speaking children's multisyllabic word productions. Suggests children's increasing faithfulness to unstressed syllables can be explained by different constraint rankings that relate to edge alignment, syllable structure,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cross Sectional Studies, Databases, English
