The Acquisiton of Word-final Clusters in French

The structure of French syllables has long been controversial, particularly with respect to the status of word-final consonants. Some researchers suggest that word-final consonants are syllabified as codas, whereas others propose that these are onsets of empty-headed syllables. This raises questions...

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Autores principales:	Katherine Demuth, Margaret Kehoe
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Lenguaje:	CA EN
Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2006
Materias:	phonological acquisition syllable structure clusters Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0a7b08dd0a734f8885acb02b716c4e212021-11-27T10:48:49ZThe Acquisiton of Word-final Clusters in French10.5565/rev/catjl.791695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/0a7b08dd0a734f8885acb02b716c4e212006-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/79https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719The structure of French syllables has long been controversial, particularly with respect to the status of word-final consonants. Some researchers suggest that word-final consonants are syllabified as codas, whereas others propose that these are onsets of empty-headed syllables. This raises questions regarding the nature of syllabic representations in children’s developing French, a topic that has received little attention. This study examines 2-year-olds’ elicited productions of word-final obstruent-liquid (OL) clusters, and compares these with the acquisition of word-initial OL clusters. The acquisition of singleton word-final consonants is also discussed. Although word-final clusters are acquired later than both word-initial clusters and word-final singletons, the error patterns are the same, with earlier acquisition and preservation of obstruents. A few children exhibit final vowel epenthesis, raising the possibility that some French-speaking children may syllabify word-final consonants as onsets. The paper concludes with a discussion of the crosslinguistic implications of these findings, identifying several areas for further research.Katherine DemuthMargaret KehoeUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticlephonological acquisitionsyllable structureclustersPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 5, Iss 1 (2006)
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description	The structure of French syllables has long been controversial, particularly with respect to the status of word-final consonants. Some researchers suggest that word-final consonants are syllabified as codas, whereas others propose that these are onsets of empty-headed syllables. This raises questions regarding the nature of syllabic representations in children’s developing French, a topic that has received little attention. This study examines 2-year-olds’ elicited productions of word-final obstruent-liquid (OL) clusters, and compares these with the acquisition of word-initial OL clusters. The acquisition of singleton word-final consonants is also discussed. Although word-final clusters are acquired later than both word-initial clusters and word-final singletons, the error patterns are the same, with earlier acquisition and preservation of obstruents. A few children exhibit final vowel epenthesis, raising the possibility that some French-speaking children may syllabify word-final consonants as onsets. The paper concludes with a discussion of the crosslinguistic implications of these findings, identifying several areas for further research.
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The Acquisiton of Word-final Clusters in French

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