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From Pre-Speech to Speech: On Early Phonology. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 12.
Vihman, Marilyn May – 1976
A discussion of word acquisition rates and strategies is based upon a 6-month case study of an Estonian-speaking child who gradually and systematically relaxed phonotactic constraints to allow greater complexity in word production. In addition to the cognitive tools of assimilation and accomodation as described by Piaget, the child used a further…
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