Colantoni & Steele 2007
1. This article seeks to explain the order of acquisition of a certain target allophonic phoneme based on the Universal Grammar approach. The authors explain English-speaking French language learners’ errors in terms of order of acquisition and the introduction and conclusion imply that this order of acquisition based on complicated principles of aerophonetics might be universal across all learners of all languages.
2. The article addresses property theory because it takes as a basic assumption that in order to generalize findings found for ESL, it is necessary to “expand the empirical base to include an even greater variety of target languages.” The authors hope to deduce universal constraints from this study and others like it.
3. While I believe the authors focused on universal constraints on targetlike production of French rhotics, I was most interested in the finding that just the act of production gives the language learners practice with the target phonemes and helps them move toward more targetlike production. I feel that this indirectly supports Swain’s Output Hypothesis.
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