Issues in the acquisition of phonology by an English-Romanian bilingual child

Abstract

This paper is a case study of the early stages in the acquisition of phonology by a bilingual English-Romanian child. The phenomena analyzed are consonant harmony, the treatment of voiceless stops, the emergence of fricatives, the phonetic realization of liquids, and the resolution of various types of onset clusters. Also discussed are some implications of the findings.

Keywords

• consonant harmony
• voiceless stops
• fricatives
• liquids
• onset clusters