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Miles, Kelly; Yuen, Ivan; Cox, Felicity; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2016
English has a word-minimality requirement that all open-class lexical items must contain at least two moras of structure, forming a bimoraic foot (Hayes, 1995).Thus, a word with either a long vowel, or a short vowel and a coda consonant, satisfies this requirement. This raises the question of when and how young children might learn this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Language, English, Suprasegmentals