Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Abstract; INPUT-BASED PHONOLOGICAL ACQUISITION; CHAPTER 1 Accounts of acquisition; CHAPTER 2 Cross-linguistic codas; CHAPTER 3 English codas; CHAPTER 4 Child language codas; CHAPTER 5 Experiment 1; CHAPTER 6 Experiment 2; CHAPTER 7 Coda acquisition; APPENDIX I Languages used in cross-linguistic analyses organised by language; APPENDIX II Languages used in cross-linguistic analyses organised by language family; APPENDIX III EFA for cross-linguistic place of articulation in coda position
Summary
Analyses two current theories: that acquisition is primarily mediated by innate properties of language provided by universal grammar, or that language is acquired based on the patterns in the ambient language
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-142) and index