Underspecification, parameters, and the acquisition of vowels
The goal of this thesis is to develop a parametric model of acquisition which incorporates the idea that phonological systems are underlyingly unspecified for certain feature values. I examine two variants of this model: one based on the theory of Radical Underspecification (Archangeli and Pulleybla...
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University of British Columbia
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30805 |