Week 6 - early words & developing phonology

Question 1

Speech milestone for 0-3 months

Answer 1

Vocalisations of vowels

Question 2

Speech milestone for 0-6 months

Answer 2

Pre-babbling (back consonants)

Question 3

Speech milestone for 0-9 months

Answer 3

Onset of babbling (front consonants & CVCV sequences)

Question 4

Speech milestone for 1 year

Answer 4

1st words appear

Question 5

Speech milestone for 1;6

Answer 5

‘jargon stage’ - few recognisable words
vocab of 50 words

Question 6

Speech milestone for 1;6-2;0

Answer 6

develop word learning preferences e.g. similar sounds/syllable structures

Question 7

Speech milestone for 2;0

Answer 7

simple CV, CVC, CVCV structures
Nasals, stops, glides
(vocab of 300 words)

Question 8

Speech milestone for 3;0

Answer 8

Consonants of all V, P, M
Variety of syllable shapes and multisyllabic words

Question 9

Phonetic acquisition for 3-3;5

Answer 9

plosives, nasals, fricatives

Question 10

What is reduplication?

Answer 10

2nd syllable becomes a replication of first
water - wawa

Question 11

What is weak syllable deletion?

Answer 11

omission of an unstressed syllable
banana - nana

Question 12

What is cluster reduction?

Answer 12

simplification of consonant clusters
spoon - boon

Question 13

What is final consonant deletion?

Answer 13

No consonant at the end of a syllable
dogs - do

Question 14

What is fronting?

Answer 14

velar fronting
k to t

Question 15

What is backing?

Answer 15

Alveolar, post alveolar becomes velar
t to k

Question 16

What is stopping?

Answer 16

fricatives and affricates are substituted for plosives
sun - tun

Question 17

What is gliding?

Answer 17

liquids are substituted by glides - replacing /l/ and /r/ with /w/ and /j/ - y

Question 18

What is deaffrication?

Answer 18

modification of the affricate feature
chip - tip

Question 19

What is Vocalisation?

Answer 19

liquid sounds replaced with vowels
table - tabow

Question 20

What is context-sensitive voicing?

Answer 20

Voicing of syllable not usually voiced and vice versa

Question 21

What is Consonant Harmony?

Answer 21

When one sound becomes same/similar to another sound in the word

Question 22

What is Velar Assimilation?

Answer 22

non-velar sound changes to a velar sound due to presence of a neighbouring velar sound

kack for tack

Question 23

What is Nasal Assimilation?

Answer 23

an oral sound changes to a velar sound due to the presence of a neighbouring velar sound

munny for funny

Question 24

What is Progressive Assimilation?

Answer 24

the trigger comes before the target (error)

tat for tag - influences by inital t

Question 25

What is Anticipatory Assimilation?

Answer 25

the sound that changes (target/error) comes before the trigger
- doat for coat - influenced by final t