Syllabic Constraints and Constraint Conflicts in Loanword Adaptations, Aphasic Speech, and Children’s Errors

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Abstract In a longitudinal case study, Beland and Paradis (1997) compared the syllabic errors-defined as segment insertion and deletion (as opposed toWe would like to thank the audience at the ‘Current Trends in Phonology II’ Conference, held at the Abbey of Royaumont near Paris in 1998, where a preliminary version of this chapter was presented. We are particularly grateful to Steve Anderson, John Goldsmith, Janet Pierrehumbert, Jean-Frarn;:ois Prunet, and Annie Rialland for their illuminating comments and challenging questions. We are also deeply indebted to Isabelle McClish and Joel Macoir for their work with the second aphasic patient of our study, to Claudine Blouin, Andre Courcy, Yannique Laplame, and Myriam Baba’i for their work with the children of our study, and to Darlene LaCharite for her feedback on this version of the article vis-a-vis both substance and exposition. We acknowledge SSHRC grants 4ro-97-r446 (C.P.) and 4ro-96-r467 (R.B.) and FCAR grant 98-ER-2305 (C.P. and R.B.).