Week 7: Sequence Constraints

Question 1

sequence constraint

Answer 1

children can often produce a phoneme in isolation or in certain contexts but not in the some type of sequence with other phonemes

Question 2

types of sequence constraints

Answer 2

1. consonant cluster sequences
2. consonants separated by vowels
3. consonant-vowel sequences
4. vowels separated by consonants

Question 3

consonant cluster sequences are examined in respect to

Answer 3

the word position of the cluster

the segments in the cluster

Question 4

limitations in cluster sequences are

Answer 4

• the sequence of consonants have to be legal in english for the given word position (“doctor” /ct/ can be in the middle of a word but it cannot start a syllable)
• the number of consonants in a cluster

Question 5

in independent analysis, how should we analyze clusters?

Answer 5

separate them in your work, make a list of clusters according to word position they are in . examine the features that are present in the members of each cluster.

Question 6

in relational analysis, how should we analyze clusters?

Answer 6

look at the number of times the child’s production matches the adult form and if there is any variation.
any slight variation = mismatch

Question 7

important areas to explore in child’s consonant cluster sequence:

Answer 7

frequently produced clusters
developing clusters: emerging, maybe used a few times
missing clusters: no production even with opportunity present
common patterns (deleted, substituted, added consonants)
impact of phonetic/word context
impact of speaking context (single word vs. connected speech)
adequacy of the sample (are more utterances needed)

Question 8

consonants separated by vowels indicates that

Answer 8

consonants can influence each other even when they are separated by a vowel

Question 9

in consonants separated by vowels, we should look for the presence of

Answer 9

• assimilation
• metathesis of consonant features
• migration

Question 10

consonant vowel sequences

Answer 10

adjacent consonants and vowels can influence eachother

Question 11

types of consonant vowel interactions

Answer 11

• place feature interactions

- height interactions

Question 12

vowels separated by a cosonant

Answer 12

vowels can influence each other even when separated by a vowel

Question 13

analysis of speech sample with segmental focus includes

Answer 13

examining features: frequency of occurrence
absent features
position constraints on features
absent features
features not sampled