Consonant Clusters Across Morpheme Boundaries: Polish Morphonotactic Inventory and its Acquisition

• Authors: Paulina Zydorowicz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Morphonotactics is a term introduced by Dressler and Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (2006) to refer to the interaction of phonotactics and morphotactics. This paper examines the acquisition of phonotactics and morphonotactics, i.e. consonant clusters occurring within morphemes and across morpheme boundaries. It is hypothesized that morphonotactic clusters will be better retained in production than lexical clusters as they carry significant morphological information. Additionally, the acquisition of consonant clusters will be investigated in terms of markedness. With respect to markedness, two hypotheses have been put forward. Firstly, less marked (preferred) sequences will emerge earlier. Secondly, preferred clusters will be retained in production better.

Keywords

EN

Phonotactics; morphonotactics; markedness; language acquisition

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 565-588

Dates

published

2010-12-01

online

2011-03-30

Contributors

author

Paulina Zydorowicz

• School of English

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10010-010-0028-0