Using detailed analyses of cross-generational case studies, Smith explains the acquisition of language phonology by children.

This book takes contrast, an issue that has been central to phonological theory since Saussure, as its central theme, making explicit its importance to phonolog

This volume is a collection of 13 chapters, each devoted to a particular issue that is crucial to our understanding of the way learners acquire, learn, and use

Originally published in 1973, this book is an account of how the child learns the sound system of his native language, or how he learns to speak. A theory of th

The central assertion in this volume is that the young child uses general skills, scaffolded by adults, to acquire the complex knowledge of sound patterns and t