6.717, Books: Phonology, Lang Acquisition

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-717. Tue 23 May 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 98
 
Subject: 6.717, Books: Phonology, Lang Acquisition
 
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PHONOLOGY
 
Dressler, Wolfgang U., Martin Prinzhorn, John R. Rennison (curr.),
        PHONOLOGICA. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 7th INTERNATIONAL PHONOLOGY MEETING
        1994    317pp.  paperbound      approx. USD 50  Rosenberg & Sellier
                via Andrea Doria 14, I-10123 Torino (credit card accepted)
The book collects the contributions to the last Phonologica conference
(Krems 1992). Contributions by: H. Basboll, P.M. Bertinetto et al., A.
Calabrese, G. Drachman & A. Malikouti-Drachman, W.U. Dressler & K.
Dziubalska-Kolaczuk, P. Fikkert, C. Gussenhoven, J. Harris & G. Lindsey, H.
van der Hulst & J.G. Kooij, B. Kroeger & C. Opgen-Rhein, M.R. Lloret, Y.C.
Morin, M.N. Chiosain, M.L. Onederra, G.L. Piggott, D. Recasens & E.
Farnetani, J.R. Rennison, R.A. Rhodes, H. Sandoy, M. Selting, P. Siptar,
J.O. Svantesson, M. Vayra, G. Williams. They deal with subjects such as:
Representations, phonology-phonetics interface, phonological and phonetic
prominence, typology, diachrony.
        For more information, please contact: bertinet at sns.it
 
Lamontagne, Greg. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Syllabification
        and Consonant Cooccurrence Conditions, Pb. ix + 352 pp. Ph.D.
        Dissertation, 1993. $16 + S/H ($3 domestic, $4 foreign). Graduate
        Linguistic Student Association (GLSA), glsa at linguist.umass.edu.
 
        English heterosyllabic consonant clusters form the basis of an
        investigation into the relationship between syllabification
        algorithms and consonant cooccurrence conditions. Here a modular
        theory of the syllable is presented which constrains tauto- and
        heterosyllabic clusters by appealing to independently motivated
        phonological principles (like the OCP) and general phonetic
        processes (like the effects of gestural overlap). Generalizations
        exhibited by English consonant clusters are discussed and accounted
        for in terms of these (general) prosody-independent constraints.
 
 
LANG ACQUISITION
 
Perez-Leroux, Ana Teresa. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Empty
        Categories and the Acquisition of WH-movement, Pb. xiv + 286 pp.
        Ph.D. Dissertation, 1993. $16 + S/H ($3 domestic, $4 foreign).
        GLSA, glsa at linguist.umass.edu.
 
This dissertation explores children's acquisition of relative clauses
and long distance question formation in English and Spanish. The
experimental study of children's acquisition of long distance Wh-movement
shows that children's grammar exhibit properties of Wh-movement, like
obedience to barriers and the ECP and properties that do not fit a
Wh-movement analysis, such as partial movement and resumptive pronouns. It
argues that the default chain in Child Grammar is composed of a null
operator-null constant, and that developments in the nominal feature system
leads to the replacement by a set of fully developed A'-dependencies.
 
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