PHONOLOGICAL SELECTIVITY IN THE FIRST 50 WORDS OF A BILINGUAL-CHILD

This paper examines the phonology of the first 50-word period of a Por tuguese-Turkish bilingual child (1;7 - 1;10), with specific reference to selection/avoidance patterns. Results reveal clear patterns of avoi dance related to language-independent segmental restrictions (front ro unded vowels, back high unrounded vowel, initial fricatives, laterals and consonant clusters), and in some cases, to word/syllable shapes. R esults also show lack of synonymy in his productive lexicon and very l ittle variability.