Positional velar fronting: an updated articulatory account.

@article{McallisterByun2012PositionalVF,
  title={Positional velar fronting: an updated articulatory account.},
  author={Tara Mcallister Byun},
  journal={Journal of child language},
  year={2012},
  volume={39 5},
  pages={
          1043-76
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:2137947}
}
It is proposed that children's difficulty with discrete tongue movement can be encoded in a violable constraint, Move.as-Unit in a Harmonic Grammar framework, which makes it possible to reframe disparate-seeming conditioning factors as a unified grammatical system.
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