aspects of phonological acquisition, such as coda clusters, vowels and supra-
segmentals. This will enable us to have an even better understanding of the
processes involved in the acquisition of sound systems in bilingual children
growing up with Welsh and English.
This chapter focused on how sounds are acquired in a bilingual context.
The next chapter focuses on the opposite scenario, that is, how sounds in the
native language can undergo change or ‘attrite’ under the influence of the
acquisition of another language.
Note
(1)^ Note that by convention English stops occurring in /s/-clusters are depicted as
unaspirated fortis stops, that is, [sp=], whereas Welsh stops occurring in the same
environment are depicted as devoiced lenis stops, that is, [sb], even though they are
phonetically identical (Ball & Williams, 2001). The same holds true for three-element
clusters of the type /s/ + stop + sonorant.
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