Grammar in Language Acquisition: the design of Phonology
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Phonological acquisition. Consonantal inventory. Universal principles.Abstract
This paper presents a reflection on the gradual construction of grammar in the process of phonological acquisition by children who are native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, focusing on the constitution of the consonantal segment inventory. The systematicity of the process could be recognized and explained by Clements’ theoretical presuppositions ([2005] 2009), whose distinctive feature-based principles, in an interactive way, have determined the organization of the phonological inventories of languages. Based on two principles – Robustness and Feature Economy –, the analysis that was carried out in this study could evidence that there are universal tendencies underlying the formation of children’s phonological grammars in their language acquisition process, as well as in the constitution of the phonological inventories of languages.
KEY-WORDS: Phonological acquisition. Consonantal inventory. Universal principles.
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