The Development of On-glides in American English

The status of the C/y/ sequence as a consonant cluster has motivated an investigation into the representation of such sequences in comparison to C/w/ and consonant-liquid sequences in data from developing systems. Evidence from production and substitution patterns indicated that children showed different patternings for the consonant-glide sequences, such that for some children the palatal glide patterned as part of the onset of a syllable, whereas for other children it patterned as part of the nucleus. Results support the claim that the palatal glide of the C/y/ sequence patterns as part of both the onset and the nucleus of a syllable. The seemingly ambivalent behavior of glides would then follow from a complex structure and different constraint rankingsThe definitive version of this paper was published in BUCLD 20: Proceedings of the 20th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (1996) and is available at http://www.cascadilla.com/bucld20toc.htmlBarlow, J. A. (1996). The development of on-glides in american english. In A. Stringfellow, D. Cahana-Amitay, E. Hughes, & A. Zukowski (Eds.) BUCLD 20: Proceedings of the 20th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 40-51). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.ISBN: 9781574730128 (Published conference proceedings)This work was supported in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health to Indiana University, DC00260