Acquisition of /s/ clusters in Croatian speaking children with phonological disorders. 2010

Vesna Mildner, and Diana Tomić
University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia. vmildner@ffzg.hr

The authors studied the acquisition of nine #sC clusters in 30 Croatian-speaking phonologically disordered children, aged between 3;8-7;0 years, by analysing their renditions of target words elicited in response to visual stimuli presented on a computer screen. Results did not support the idea that a greater jump in sonority from C1 to C2 would translate into a greater accuracy of productions. The percentage of correct realizations was high for /s/+nasal combinations (mean 85%), and for approximants /j/ and // (mean 77%) and stops (mean 73%), with significantly lower scores for liquids /l/ and /r/ (mean 47%). The difference between SSP-violating and SSP-following targets was not significant, and neither was the homorganicity of the target. The most frequent errors were substitution of the first consonant (i.e. /s/) while keeping the second one. These children are significantly different from the typically-developing group in two ways. First, retention of the first or the second consonant is not as frequent, and, second, /l/ is almost as difficult as /r/, as opposed to the typically-developing children who had no more difficulty with /l/ than with the other two approximants. Although cluster reduction is not the most common process in erroneous productions, the patterns emerged here generally agree with the findings from other languages.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007802 Language A verbal or nonverbal means of communicating ideas or feelings. Dialect,Dialects,Languages
D007804 Language Development The gradual expansion in complexity and meaning of symbols and sounds as perceived and interpreted by the individual through a maturational and learning process. Stages in development include babbling, cooing, word imitation with cognition, and use of short sentences. Language Acquisition,Acquisition, Language,Development, Language
D008297 Male Males
D010699 Phonation The process of producing vocal sounds by means of VOCAL CORDS vibrating in an expiratory blast of air. Phonations
D010700 Phonetics The science or study of speech sounds and their production, transmission, and reception, and their analysis, classification, and transcription. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed) Speech Sounds,Sound, Speech,Sounds, Speech,Speech Sound
D002648 Child A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL. Children
D002675 Child, Preschool A child between the ages of 2 and 5. Children, Preschool,Preschool Child,Preschool Children
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001184 Articulation Disorders Disorders of the quality of speech characterized by the substitution, omission, distortion, and addition of phonemes. Phonological Impairments,Speech Articulation Disorders,Articulation Disorders, Developmental,Developmental Articulation Disorders,Disarticulation Disorders,Misarticulation,Phonology Impairment,Unintelligible Articulation,Articulation Disorder,Articulation Disorder, Developmental,Articulation Disorder, Speech,Articulation Disorders, Speech,Articulation, Unintelligible,Articulations, Unintelligible,Developmental Articulation Disorder,Disarticulation Disorder,Disorder, Disarticulation,Disorders, Disarticulation,Impairment, Phonological,Impairment, Phonology,Impairments, Phonological,Impairments, Phonology,Phonological Impairment,Phonology Impairments,Speech Articulation Disorder,Unintelligible Articulations

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