Goal: To increase knowledge of lexical and phonological development.
Read journal articles from two citations in the text on how lexical development relates to phonological development. For each study, identify the procedures, the data, and outcomes. Interview two caretakers of children who are of the same age and developmental level as in the samples. Compare their children’s language behavior to outcomes from the research.
World Wide Web References
•   American Dialect Society: http://www.americandialect.org/
•   International Pragmatics Association: http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/Default.html
•   DISCOURS: An interdisciplinary forum for scholars from diverse fields to discuss discourse theory and practice from a wide range of perspectives: http://www-english.tamu.edu/ds/discours.html
•   The Telsur Project. An online survey of linguistic changes in progress in North American English, supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/home.html
•   What is phonology? An online resource about phonology: