The Role of Frequency in the Acquisition of Word-Initial Branching Onsets in Catalan

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This paper aims to evaluate the role of frequency in the acquisition of word-initial branching onsets in Catalan, a language that has not been previously studied in this field. The study consists in a corpus analysis of word-initial branching onsets in child-directed-speech, drawn from the CHILDES Romance Corpus, and an elicitation task. The predictions made by a frequency-based account are then compared to the results obtained from the elicitation task of word-initial branching onsets by 2- to 3-year-old monolingual Catalan-speaking children. The analysis shows that the frequency account makes incorrect predictions about the Catalan pattern of phonological acquisition.
Idioma originalAnglès
Nombre de pàgines13
Lloc de publicacióSomerville, MA, USA
Estat de la publicacióEn premsa - 2025

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NomBUCLD 49 Proceedings

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