Jessica A. Barlow

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jessica A. Barlow is involved.

Title

Perspectives on Phonological Theory and Development: In honor of Daniel A. Dinnsen

Edited by Ashley W. Farris-Trimble and Jessica A. Barlow

Any theory of phonology must be able to account for the acquisition and development of a phonological system, and studying acquisition often leads to reciprocal advances in the theory. This volume explores the link between phonological theory and linguistic development from a variety of angles,… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 56] 2014. viii, 256 pp.

Articles

Barlow, Jessica A. and Sonja Pruitt-Lord 2014 The role of phonological context in children’s overt marking of ‘-s’ in two dialects 
of American English Perspectives on Phonological Theory and Development: In honor of Daniel A. Dinnsen, Farris-Trimble, Ashley W. and Jessica A. Barlow (eds.), pp. 133–154 | Article

We consider the role of preceding and following phonological context in the variable marking of monosegmental English plural and 3rd-person singular morphemes by African-American English speaking children (Study 1), and by younger children speaking a more mainstream variety of American English… read more

Fabiano-Smith, Leah, Rebecca Shuriff, Jessica A. Barlow and Brian A. Goldstein 2014  Dialect density in bilingual Puerto Rican Spanish-English speaking children Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:1, pp. 34–60 | Article

It is still largely unknown how the two phonological systems of bilingual children interact. In this exploratory study, we examine children’s use of dialect features to determine how their speech sound systems interact. Six monolingual Puerto Rican Spanish-speaking children and six bilingual… read more

Barlow, Jessica A. 2006 Constraint conflict in the acquisition of clusters in Spanish Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology, Martínez-Gil, Fernando and Sonia Colina (eds.), pp. 525–548 | Article

This study characterizes the cluster production patterns of four Spanish-speaking children, whose data are drawn from original and published research. Each child demonstrates a different pattern of production. The data support previous claims that there is a general preference for “sonority-based… read more