0 a piece or several pieces of electronic equipment that can be used to play music from recordings, radio broadcasts, etc. --
The essential observation here is that low ranking of a constraint on faithfulness to a particular feature results in phonologically inert behaviour of that feature within the sound system.
Because the children are highly unintelligible due to the prolonged static nature of their phonology, they warrant direct training and instruction to induce change in the sound system.
In the extreme case of fixed format, or 'tape' music, all sound is predetermined ahead of time and only the space and sound system determine variation in performance.
As such, a child might have evidenced 0, 1, or 2 liquids in the sound system.
These laws introduced changes in the sound system of a given language by gradually unfolding into a certain direction over a long period of time.
The sound system worked in subtle ways to shape individual and collective identities, and to reinforce patterns of authority.
One would expect that reductions found in spontaneous speech may influence diachronic language variation and change in the sound system and the lexicon.
Their sound system, however, is extremely impoverished, consisting of a severely reduced consonantal repertoire.
