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Child Consonant Harmony Revisited: The Role of Lexical Memory Constraints and Segment Repetition

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Language and Speech

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Abstract

Language and Speech, Volume 69, Issue 1, Page 155-182, March 2026.
Young children often produce non-target-like word forms in which non-adjacent consonants share a major place of articulation (e.g., [gɔgi] “doggy”). Termed child consonant harmony (CCH), this phenomenon has garnered considerable attention in the ...