Publications

Publication details [#51692]

Smith, Jennifer, Mercedes Durham and Liane Fortune. 2009. Universal and dialect-specific pathways of acquisition: Caregivers, children, and t/d deletion. Language Variation and Change 21 (1) : 69–95.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

caregiver-child conversation | constraints on variability | conversational analysis | language acquisition | standard1 vs. dialect2

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study highlights universal and dialect-specific constraints on t/d deletion acquisition through speech analysis of primary caregiver-preschool child interaction in a Scottish community.