title: Homonymy and reduplication: on the extended availability of two strategies in phonological acquisition.
abstract: In the literature on phonological acquisition certain strategies such as homonymy and reduplication are viewed as phenomena appearing at a very early age, resulting from a deficient sound-inventory and sound-distribution. Data on homonymy and reduplication from a longitudinal study will be considered, which show that: (a) such strategies can appear later in the child's linguistic development than it has been proposed; (b) the lexical item has to be considered a central unit, beyond the earliest stages, in the acquisition of phonology.
authors.affiliation: University of Hamburg, West Germany.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lleó
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007802:Language; D007804:Language Development; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D010700:Phonetics; D012660:Semantics