Spanish Speech Sound Development

Question 1

Spanish/English Shared & Unshared Phonemes

Answer 1

Shared:
15

Unshared:
9 Consonants unique to English
5 Consonants unique to Spanish

English : 12-14 vowels
Spanish : 5 vowels

Question 2

Spanish Influenced English

Answer 2

Interference: Consonants or vowels not shared by both languages are used in the other language.

Ex. Deletion of word final /s/ and /l/
Stops for fricatives (b/v)
Tese for lax vowels

Question 3

Which 5 Consonants can be Final?

Answer 3

d, l, n, r, s

Question 4

Things you never knew about Spanish…

Answer 4

No initial /s/ blends

Largely multisyllabic

Question 5

Phonology

Answer 5

Segmental features:
1.
2.
3.

Suprasegmental:
1.
2.

Question 6

Radical Dialects

Answer 6

Location:

What makes them Radical?

How do they affect assessment?

Question 7

Selection of Speech Targets

Answer 7

Always Consider dialect

Language history

Effects of L1 on L2

Shared vs. unshared phonemes

Phonemic makeup of words

Question 8

MLU in Spanish

Answer 8

Don’t count morphemes in Spanish, count words

MLU-w

Question 9

How does Spanish differ from English?

Answer 9

Agreement between article and noun for gender and number

Adjectives must agree with noun for gender and number

Adjectives come after nouns

Possessives must agree for number

Spanish is a pro-drop language

Spanish has 2 verbs for “to be”

Spanish has 3 aux. verbs

Possessives are indicated by the use of ‘de’

Spanish is flexible in regards to word order

Inflection is important in Spanish