On the Learning of Arbitrary Phonological Rules

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Positional Neutralization: A Case Study from Child Language (2008, background): “On unnatural (i.e. nonadult-like) patterns in child phonology, see, among many others, Smith 1973, Kiparsky & Menn 1977, Macken 1979, Bernhardt & Stemberger 1998, Pater & Werle 2001, Buckley 2003, Buckley & Seidl 2005.”
Three Exemplars Allow at Least Some Linguistic Generalizations: Implications for Generalization Mechanisms and Constraints (2008, unknown): “This research follows the lead of Seidl and Buckley (2005) , who in two experiments found that 9-month-olds were equally able to learn a phonetically natural generalization, which occurs in human languages, and an unnatural generalization, which does not occur in human languages.”
Learning Phonology With Substantive Bias: An Experimental and Computational Study of Velar Palatalization (2006, background): “Recent work has also established that such patterns are found in child language (Buckley, 2003) and are not distinguished from more substantively motivated patterns by infants under certain experimental conditions ( Seidl & Buckley, 2005 ).”
Testing the role of phonetic knowledge in Mandarin tone sandhi* (2010, background): “In addition to the conflicting results, as Seidl & Buckley (2005) point out, the A, B, AB triad procedure is quite novel in infant research, and the assumption that the infants take the AB string to be a concatenation of A and B may not be valid.”