Week 11: Vowel Assessment & L2 Phonology Flashcards
vowel errors
vowel length rhotic vowels unusual vowel resonance height timing tense vs. lax
vowels are generally acquired ____________ than consonants and demonstrate __________ impairment
earlier; less
vowels are __________ variable than consonants in normal and disordered production
more
why vowel intervention may be necessary
- stress or timing within syllable may relate to constraints on vowel length
- rhotic vowels may impose an articulatory challenge
- there may be consonant vowel interactions
- there may be dialect changes
factors to consider in vowel assessment
sampling opportunities
contexts
home dialect
sources of data
articulation tests
connected speech samples
supplementary tests for vowels with less than four opportunities
imitation
organization of data
identify vowel matches and substitutions with model-replica chart
look for any contextual influences on substitutions (phonetic, prosodic)
organize mismatches by vowel error categories
vowel feature changes
backing fronting lowering raising centralizing tensing laxing rounding unrounding diphthong reduction diphthongization assimilation
phonology is embedded in
language
language is affected by
social, cultural, psychological, and affective circumstances
second-language phonology looks at
the organization of a second-language learners
research in L2 phonology is less robust than studies in
L2 syntax, morphology, lexicon, and pragmatics
simultaneous acquisition occurs when
a child is exposed to two or more languages at the same time, before the age of 3
sequential acquisition occurs wehn
a child acquires one language before learning another language after the age of 3
accent
a non-native production of the target language’s phonological units
- vowels
- consonants
- suprasegmental
