Childrens Phonology

Question 1

Substitution

Answer 1

Replacement of one sound for another. Eg /veri:/ to /vewi:/ is the substituting voiced post alveolar approximant for voiced billabial approximant

Question 2

Avoidance of consonant cluster

Answer 2

Consonants avoided for example “banana” to “nana”

Question 3

Reduplication

Answer 3

Use of repeated consonant sound eg dog to gog. Also Reduplication of monosyllables common in young stages, mama,baba, dada.

Question 4

Unstressed syllables dropped

Answer 4

Dropping of difficult syllables to make utterances easier, for example “sleep” to “seep”

Question 5

Deletion

Answer 5

Deleting phonemes, for example “hat” to “ha”

Question 6

Phonemic expansion and contraction

Answer 6

Between 6 and 12 months. Around 150 phonemes in all human language. English uses 44 plus the glottal stop. At the beginning of the babbling stage, the number of phonemes babies produce increases significantly (expansion) and at about 9/10 months a reduction occurs. Sounds become specific to the child’s native tongue as they discard phonemes that aren’t needed. Noises made by babies from different nationalities sound different.