title: Phonological selectivity in the first fifty words of a bilingual child.
abstract: This paper examines the phonology of the first 50-word period of a Portuguese-Turkish bilingual child (1;7 - 1;10), with specific reference to selection/avoidance patterns. Results reveal clear patterns of avoidance related to language-independent segmental restrictions (front rounded vowels, back high unrounded vowel, initial fricatives, laterals and consonant clusters), and in some cases, to word/syllable shapes. Results also show lack of synonymy in his productive lexicon and very little variability.
authors.affiliation: Linguistics Program, Florida International University, Miami 33199, USA. YAVASM@SERVAX.FIU.EDU
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yavas
mesh_terms: D002663:Child Language; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007804:Language Development; D010700:Phonetics