Child Language - Phonology

Question 1

Babbling?

Answer 1

Child creates combinations of vowels and consonants (“da, ga , wa”)

Question 2

Consonant clusters

Answer 2

Group of consonants. Demand more muscular control (“gl, str”)

Question 3

Cooing

Answer 3

Sounds babies make (“goo”) 6-8 weeks discovering vocal cords

Question 4

Phonemic contraction

Answer 4

Sounds child can make are reduced , only mkae the sounds of thekr own language (9 months)

Question 5

Phonemic expansion

Answer 5

Amount of sounds a baby produces increases, voice box and muscualr control develops

Question 6

Protowords

Answer 6

Clusters of sounds, babys attempt to articulate specific words

Question 7

Reduplicated monosyllable

Answer 7

Repition of a sound “ba”

Question 8

Vegatative state

Answer 8

0-2 months. Baby has very few ways of communicating

Question 9

Phoneme

Answer 9

Unit of sound

Question 10

Assimilation

Answer 10

Sound that occurs elsewhere in the word is borrowed “gog” for “dog”

Question 11

Deletion

Answer 11

Reducing/ taking out final consonants “ca” for “cat”

Unstressed syllables “nana” for “banana”

Consonant clusters

Question 12

Substitution

Answer 12

Harder sound is replaced with an easier one

“Dat” “dere” “ dis”

Question 13

Monopthong

Answer 13

A vowel that has a single auditory quality

Question 14

Diphthong

Answer 14

A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable “coin” , “loud”