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Sound Laws and the Distinctive Power of Phonological Patterns

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Ivic, Pavle – Language Sciences, 1973

Original version of this paper presented during the 1970 Linguistic Institute in Columbus, Ohio. (VM)

Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Acquisition

Cognition and Phonology in Acquisition of Plurals and Possessives by Luo Children.

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Blount, Ben G. – Language Sciences, 1988

Luo-speaking children in Kenya responded to a test using nonce forms in morphophonology. Morphophonological processes in the acquisition of Luo plurals and possessives presented different degrees of difficulty for the subjects, with the type of morphophonological alteration in a language likely to affect the rate and order of acquisition.…

Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Distinctive Features (Language), Foreign Countries