Skip to navigation – Site map

HomeNuméros35Are children’s grammars rogue gra...

Are children’s grammars rogue grammars? Glide substitution in branching onsets

Heather Goad
p. 103-132

Abstracts

This paper focuses on the consonant+glide (CG) stage in children’s realization of branching onsets, the point in development when the liquid in target CL clusters is realized as a glide. In works where the representation of derived CG clusters is discussed, it is assumed that they are branching onsets. The result, however, is that the only branching onsets in the child’s system are CG in shape and this type of system appears to be unattested in adult grammars. In light of this, several alternative syllabifications for how the glide is syllabified are considered. All are rejected in favour of the position that the glide is not prosodically affiliated at the CG stage. Formal parallels for this type of representation in adult grammars are provided.

Top of page

References

Bibliographical reference

Heather Goad, “Are children’s grammars rogue grammars? Glide substitution in branching onsets”Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, 35 | 2006, 103-132.

Electronic reference

Heather Goad, “Are children’s grammars rogue grammars? Glide substitution in branching onsets”Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes [Online], 35 | 2006, Online since 22 December 2006, connection on 19 April 2026. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rlv/1454; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rlv.1454

Top of page

Author

Heather Goad

Department of Linguistics, McGill University Montréal, Canada

Top of page

Copyright

The text and other elements (illustrations, imported files) are “All rights reserved”, unless otherwise stated.

Top of page
Search OpenEdition Search

You will be redirected to OpenEdition Search