The role of speech discrimination in developmental sound substitutions
- 1 February 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Child Language
- Vol. 3 (3) , 319-329
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900007212
Abstract
Fourteen two-year-olds (M=2; o) were presented with minimal word pairs in a new and highly efficient experimental perception paradigm. The data provide a preliminary view of the relative difficulty of various minimal phonological contrasts for children. The study specifically focuses on perception of some phonological contrasts which usually are actualized and some which usually are not actualized in two-year-old child productions. The data suggest that perceptual difficulties probably play a substantial role in some childhood speech errors, but little, if any, role in others.Keywords
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