Marilyn Vihman is Professor of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York, having previously held positions at Stanford and the University of Wales at Bangor. Her research focuses mainly on vocal and perceptual development and word learning in the first two years of life. Her books include Phonological Development: The Origins of Language in the Child (Blackwell, 1996) and its revised edition Phonological Development: The First Two Years (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), and, as co-editor with Tamar Keren-Portnoy, The Emergence of Phonology: Whole-Word Approaches and Cross-Linguistic Evidence (CUP, 2013).

...the great quantity of data used to support the idea of phonological templates provides a convincing argument for their existence...The theory is well supported with data and suggests a different way to look at children's early phonological and lexical development. The text is suitable for advanced students of phonology, phonologists and speech-language pathologists.

• 1: Perspectives on phonological development 2: Whole-word phonology: Historical and theoretical overview 3: Building the evidence: From item learning to templates 4: First words and prosodic structures: A cross-linguistic perspective 5: Phonological templates in development 6: Issues around child templates: Timing, fading, quantification, and function 7: Relation of child to adult templates, I: Parallels in core grammar 8: Relation of child to adult templates, II: Language at play 9: Conclusion Appendix I: Children and language groups Appendix IIa: Chronological list of C's adapted productions Appendix IIb: Week-by-week listing of C's adapted productions Appendix IIIa: French truncated (selected) forms in -o. Appendix IIIb: French adapted forms in -o. Appendix IV: French hypocoristics Appendix V: Estonian short forms Appendix VI: English rhyming compounds

Marilyn Vihman is Professor of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York, having previously held positions at Stanford and the University of Wales at Bangor. Her research focuses mainly on vocal and perceptual development and word learning in the first two years of life. Her books include Phonological Development: The Origins of Language in the Child (Blackwell, 1996) and its revised edition Phonological Development: The First Two Years (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), and, as co-editor with Tamar Keren-Portnoy, The Emergence of Phonology: Whole-Word Approaches and Cross-Linguistic Evidence (CUP, 2013).

...the great quantity of data used to support the idea of phonological templates provides a convincing argument for their existence...The theory is well supported with data and suggests a different way to look at children's early phonological and lexical development. The text is suitable for advanced students of phonology, phonologists and speech-language pathologists.

• 1: Perspectives on phonological development 2: Whole-word phonology: Historical and theoretical overview 3: Building the evidence: From item learning to templates 4: First words and prosodic structures: A cross-linguistic perspective 5: Phonological templates in development 6: Issues around child templates: Timing, fading, quantification, and function 7: Relation of child to adult templates, I: Parallels in core grammar 8: Relation of child to adult templates, II: Language at play 9: Conclusion Appendix I: Children and language groups Appendix IIa: Chronological list of C's adapted productions Appendix IIb: Week-by-week listing of C's adapted productions Appendix IIIa: French truncated (selected) forms in -o. Appendix IIIb: French adapted forms in -o. Appendix IV: French hypocoristics Appendix V: Estonian short forms Appendix VI: English rhyming compounds

Marilyn Vihman is Professor of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York, having previously held positions at Stanford and the University of Wales at Bangor. Her research focuses mainly on vocal and perceptual development and word learning in the first two years of life. Her books include Phonological Development: The Origins of Language in the Child (Blackwell, 1996) and its revised edition Phonological Development: The First Two Years (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), and, as co-editor with Tamar Keren-Portnoy, The Emergence of Phonology: Whole-Word Approaches and Cross-Linguistic Evidence (CUP, 2013).

...the great quantity of data used to support the idea of phonological templates provides a convincing argument for their existence...The theory is well supported with data and suggests a different way to look at children's early phonological and lexical development. The text is suitable for advanced students of phonology, phonologists and speech-language pathologists.

• 1: Perspectives on phonological development 2: Whole-word phonology: Historical and theoretical overview 3: Building the evidence: From item learning to templates 4: First words and prosodic structures: A cross-linguistic perspective 5: Phonological templates in development 6: Issues around child templates: Timing, fading, quantification, and function 7: Relation of child to adult templates, I: Parallels in core grammar 8: Relation of child to adult templates, II: Language at play 9: Conclusion Appendix I: Children and language groups Appendix IIa: Chronological list of C's adapted productions Appendix IIb: Week-by-week listing of C's adapted productions Appendix IIIa: French truncated (selected) forms in -o. Appendix IIIb: French adapted forms in -o. Appendix IV: French hypocoristics Appendix V: Estonian short forms Appendix VI: English rhyming compounds