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Andrew Mandell Riviere – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine Cajun English (CE)-speaking children's marking of infinitival TO. To do this, CE-speaking children's marking of infinitival TO was compared to the marking of infinitival TO by Southern White English (SWE)- and African American English (AAE)-speaking children. Marking of infinitival TO also was examined as a…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Dialects, Kindergarten, Young Children
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Klopfenstein, Marie; Ball, Martin J. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
This study describes the realization of onset and coda clusters in a 4-year old child acquiring American English, and with a higher than usual level of unintelligible speech. It reviews previous studies that have tested cluster realization against markedness and, in particular, the sonority hypothesis. This latter predicts steep rises in sonority…
Descriptors: North American English, Hypothesis Testing, Phonology, Language Processing