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Publication details [#8064]

Roeper, Thomas, Barbara Stack and Greg Carlson. 1979. Stress acquisition: The role of homogeneous rules. In Eckman, Fred R. and Ashley J. Hastings, eds. Studies in first and second language acquisition. Newbury House. pp. 45–65.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

simplification in child language | stress, L1-acquisition of

Annotation

The authors argue that a child over-restricts his hypothesis-space in the initial phases of language acquisition, systematically excluding certain rules which in fact function in adult languages.