Optimality Theory Phonological Acquisition and Disorders

Daniel A. Dinnsen is Chancellor's Professor of Linguistics and Adjunct Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is also a member of the Program in Cognitive Science and core faculty of the NIH Training Grant in Speech, Hearing, and Sensory Communication. He is Co-Principal Investigator of the Learnability Project, funded by the National Institutes of Health. Judith A. Gierut is Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences and Cognitive Science and Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the Principal Investigator and Director of the Learnability Project, funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Preface Daniel A. Dinnsen & Judith A. Gierut PART I. BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Chapter 1: Fundamentals of optimality theory Daniel A. Dinnsen Chapter 2: Phonological disorders and the Developmental Phonology Archive Judith A. Gierut Chapter 3: Fundamentals of experimental design and treatment Judith A. Gierut PART II. RESEARCH REPORTS: OPACITY EFFECTS Chapter 4: A typology of opacity effects in acquisition Daniel A. Dinnsen Chapter 5: An unusual error pattern reconsidered Daniel A. Dinnsen & Ashley W. Farris-Trimble Chapter 6: Innovations in the treatment of chain shifts Michele L. Morrisette & Judith A. Gierut PART III. RESEARCH REPORTS: DEVELOPMENTAL SHIFTS AND LEARNING Chapter 7: Developmental shifts in children's correspondence judgments Judith A. Gierut & Daniel A. Dinnsen Chapter 8: Recalcitrant error patterns Daniel A. Dinnsen Chapter 9: The prominence paradox Daniel A. Dinnsen & Ashley W. Farris-Trimble PART IV. RESEARCH REPORTS: ACQUISITION OF CONSONANT CLUSTERS Chapter 10: Syllable onsets in developmental perception and production Judith A. Gierut, Holly Storkel and Michele L. Morrisette Chapter 11: Experimental instantiations of implicational universals in phonological acquisition Judith A. Gierut Chapter 12: Gapped s-cluster inventories and faithfulness to the marked Ashley W. Farris-Trimble & Judith A. Gierut Chapter 13: A typological evaluation of the split margin approach to syllable structure in phonological acquisition Jessica A. Barlow & Judith A. Gierut Chapter 14: Constraints on consonant clusters in children with cochlear implants Steven B. Chin PART V. EPILOGUE Chapter 15: On the convergence of theory and application Daniel A. Dinnsen & Judith A. Gierut