caa a22 4500 386359156 CHVBK 20180307111909.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305000900013428 doi S0305000900013428 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305000900013428 Matthei Edward H. University of California, Irvine Crossing boundaries: more evidence for phonological constraints on early multi-word utterances [Elektronische Daten] [Edward H. Matthei] A number of researchers have argued that phonological constraints may influence the emergence and form of combinatorial speech in children. Donahue (1986) presented evidence that one child's consonant harmony constraint operated across word boundaries. This paper presents further evidence for the operation of word-level phonological constraints in multi-word utterances. Selection and avoidance patterns as well as her modifications of adult forms indicate the presence of a syllable sequencing constraint in this child's grammar: an initial syllable must begin with a consonant whose sonority value is not less than that of the following syllable. The same constraint governs the form of her early word combinations. The existence of evidence for the operation of word-level constraints in word combinations, it is pointed out, has consequences for how we interpret two-lexicon models of phonological development. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/1(1989-02), 41-54 0305-0009 16:1<41 1989 16 JCL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900013428 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900013428 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Matthei Edward H. University of California, Irvine NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/1(1989-02), 41-54 0305-0009 16:1<41 1989 16 JCL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge