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Publication details [#57771]

Miller, Karen. 2013. Acquisition of variable rules: /s/-lenition in the speech of Chilean Spanish-speaking children and their caregivers. Language Variation and Change 25 (3) : 331–340.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

caregiver-child conversation | L1-acquisition | language acquisition | language proficiency

Language as a subject

Spanish, Chilean

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study argues that production of Chilean Spanish s-lenition in utterance-final positions in caregiver's speech advances young children's (ages 2;04–5;09) s-lenition acquisition.