Child Language) Phonological Development Flashcards
Ways children will simplify their pronounciation. 7
Deletion Substitution Addition Assimilation Reduplication Voicing De voicing
Features of deletion. 3
Eg for each feature
Final consonants removed eg cat - ca
Unstressed syllables eg banana - nana
Consonant clusters reduced
Consonant clusters
Words where there’s no vowels, only consonants
Substitution features. 4
Eg for each feature
R becomes w eg rock-wock
Th becomes d,n or f eg there-dere
T becomes d eg take-dake
P becomes b eg pink-bink
Addition
Eg
Vowel is added to end of word
Eg dog-dogu
Assimilation
One consonant in a word is changed due to influence of another in same word
Eg handbag-hambag
Reduplication
Eg
Phoneme repeated
Eg bababa
A02 theory - David Crystal . 3
Children need to master 40+ sounds
Some sounds harder than others to master
Most children can pronounce sounds at beginning and middle before sounds at end of words
Theory to support phonological development
Berko and brown - fis phenomenon 1960
Features of theory supporting phonological development . 2
Children know what they mean before they can say and pronounce it
Child referred to plastic fish as ‘fis’
Adult said ‘is that your fis’ and child said ‘no my fis’
Then adult said ‘that is your fish’ child replied with ‘yes my fis’
Phonemic expansion
Number of sounds a baby produces increases
Phonemic contraction
Number of sounds a baby produces decreases
Proto words
Eg
Made up word used by a child to represent a word they can’t pronounce
Eg nana for banana
Holophrase
A single word expressing the whole idea
