title: Experimental validation of OT solutions to the comprehension-production dilemma.
abstract: The relationship between perception and production remains an unresolved issue within the study of phonological acquisition. Recent developments in optimality theory offer potentially new solutions to this long-standing problem; but thus far, the proposals that have been advanced are in the absence of actual perception-production data from a given child. This paper provides an empirical instantiation of the perception-production effects by appealing to data from children's knowledge and use of syllables and segments. The demonstration shows that optimality theoretic accounts of the perception-production interface hold in part, but a crucial modification is required in order to obtain the full range of effects that are observed in phonological acquisition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-7002, USA. gierut@indiana.edu
authors.forename: Judith A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Gierut
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010700:Phonetics; D014706:Verbal Learning / Q000502:physiology