Seminaire SFL Wauquier 12 mai 2014, 10h UPS Pouchet

[Patricia Cabredo Hofherr patricia.cabredo-hofherr@sfl.cnrs.fr [parislinguists]]

L'UMR 7023 a le plaisir de vous inviter, dans le cadre de son séminaire
à un exposé de

*Sophie Wauquier (UMR 7023, Paris-8 & CNRS)
*
*Acquisition of phonology and representations **
*
Date : lundi 12 main 2014
Heure : 10h-12h
Lieu :CNRS Pouchet -- salle 159
           59 rue Pouchet 75017 Paris

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Page du séminaire de l'UMR 7023 - SFL:
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*Résumé

**Acquisition of phonology and representations**
**Sophie Wauquier*

Anderson (1985) rightly presents the history of phonology as alternating 
between concepts
focused on representational formulations on the one hand and procedural 
phonological
propositions on the other.

Acquisition studies have always followed this pendulum movement, as 
aptly emphasized by Fikkert (2007).
But the formal possibilities offered by autosegmental theory have not 
been sufficiently explored in acquisition studies, although they are 
employed in a number of works (Menn 1978; Macken 1992, 1995).

The surge of the Optimality Theory (OT) framework in psycholinguistics 
have accelerated the abandonment of
the autosegmental framework, with its representational concerns and its 
formal potential,
before it could, in my opinion, "reveal" as much as possible about the 
data and the hypotheses
of phonological processing and acquisition. The geometry produced 
through this
autosegmental formal logic, which involves the autonomy of the levels of 
representation and
enables them to function on different planes, offers an extremely 
effective and elegant
account of numerous phenomena characterizing child productions, that can 
thus be considered
as underspecified representations: metathesis, consonantal harmony, the 
simplification of the
phonemic inventory and the acquisition of syllabic structure. In 
particular, it can highlight the
existence of a common structural logic in productions of highly 
dissimilar appearance or ones
that show no relation to each other.

Thus, these models fulfill the conditions expected of a model worthy of 
the name: simplification and abstraction, explanatory adequacy with 
respect to the data considered in all its phenomenological complexity 
(particularly enabling the formation of satisfactory generalizations) 
and an observable predictive power on the basis of
existing data.
The communication will adress those issues on the basis of French data 
(longitudinal data of 6 children
from 1,7 to 2,8; transversal data of older children).

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