ON THE DIFFERENT ROLES OF VOWELS AND CONSONANTS IN SPEECH PROCESSING AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Within the tradition of generative grammar, the notion of result in phonology has as minimal requirement the account of all and only the existing patterns that concern the phenomenon under investigation. A description represents a further advancement if the representation developed to account for a phenomenon can account also for other, previously unrelated, phenomena. One such step forward in the last 30 years consists in the enrichment of the levels of representation with different au-

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