Getting Sound Structures in Mind: Acquisition Bridging Linguistics and Psychology?

Acquisition data have never prominently figured in linguistics despite the fact that the ultimate goal of linguistics is to understand what constitutes knowledge of language and how this knowledge is acquired. In his recent GLOW lecture, Chomsky (2004) stressed that in order to answer these questions it is important to gain insight into how a lexicon is built up during acquisition, and what lexical representations look like. Here, I focus on representations of sound structures in the lexicon.