The Development of Prosodic Structure in Early Words -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1.1. Basic issues -- 1.1.1. Research questions -- 1.1.2. Continuity of prosodic structure development -- 1.1.3. Child-adult differences in phonological forms -- 1.1.4. Development in prosodic structure -- 1.2. Empirical domains of investigation -- 1.2.1. Linguistic domains -- 1.2.2. The language of investigation -- 1.3. Overview -- Phonological theory and prosodic acquisition -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Phonological background -- 2.2.1. Prosodic theory -- 2.2.2. The prosodic structure of Japanese -- 2.2.3. Optimality Theory -- 2.3. Previous research on prosodic acquisition -- 2.3.1. Representation of early words -- 2.3.2. Child-adult differences -- 2.3.3. Development of prosodic structure -- 2.4. Summary of previous research -- Methods -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Subjects -- 3.3. Collection method -- 3.4. Transcription and coding -- The representation of early syllable-internal structure -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Compensatory lengthening and moraic conservation -- 4.2.1. Moraic conservation -- 4.2.2. Excursus on length distinction -- 4.2.3. Compensatory lengthening in child Japanese -- 4.2.4. Comparisons with other child languages -- 4.2.5. Section summary -- 4.3. Bimoraic maximality -- 4.4. Sonority threshold on moraicity -- 4.4.1. Zec's (1988) generalization -- 4.4.2. Development of geminates in child Japanese -- 4.4.3. Sonority and Weight-by-Position -- 4.5. Conclusions -- The development of syllable-internal structure -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Child-adult differences in syllable-internal structure -- 5.2.1. Developmental stages in syllable-internal prosodic structure -- 5.2.2. Analysis of syllable-internal structure in child grammars -- 5.3. Account of developmental patterns.

5.3.1. Restrictions on constraint reranking -- 5.3.2. Individual differences -- 5.3.3. Mechanisms of reranking -- 5.4. Conclusions -- The representation of early word-internal structure -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Minimality condition in child language -- 6.2.1. Minimality effects as evidence for foot structure -- 6.2.2. Bimoraic minimality of truncated words -- 6.2.3. Lengthening of monomoraic targets -- 6.2.4. Summary -- 6.3. Templatic effects -- 6.3.1. Templatic effects as evidence for word-internal structure -- 6.3.2. Factoring out non-templatic causes of truncation -- 6.3.3. Disyllabic maximality -- 6.4. Conclusions -- The development of word-internal structure -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Developmental stages in word-internal structure -- 7.2.1. Monosyllabic stage -- 7.2.2. Stage 1: word = strictly binary foot -- 7.2.3. Stage 2: Beyond the minimal word -- 7.3. Analysis of word-internal structure in child grammars -- 7.3.1. Relevant constraints -- 7.3.2. Stage 1: the minimal word stage -- 7.3.3. Stage 2: Beyond the minimal word -- 7.4. Issues in the development of word-internal structure -- 7.4.1. Paths of constraint reranking -- 7.4.2. Continuing effects of markedness -- 7.5. Conclusions -- General conclusions and further directions -- 8.1. Conclusions -- 8.1.1. Continuity -- 8.1.2. Child-adult differences -- 8.1.3. Mechanisms of development -- 8.2. Further directions -- The segment inventory of Japanese -- Vowels -- Consonants -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- References -- Author index -- Language index -- Subject index -- The series LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS.