Icelandic Children's Acquisition of Consonants and Consonant Clusters

Autor/inn/en	Másdótti, Thora; McLeod, Sharynne; Crowe, Kathryn
Titel	Icelandic Children's Acquisition of Consonants and Consonant Clusters
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64 (2021) 5, S.1490-1502 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Másdótti, Thora) ORCID (McLeod, Sharynne) ORCID (Crowe, Kathryn)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Indo European Languages; Phonemes; Language Acquisition; Age Differences; Children; Gender Differences; Vowels; Syllables; Phonological Awareness; Preschool Children; Preschool Education; Elementary School Students; Young Children; Iceland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Indoeuropäisch; Fonem; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Child; Kind; Kinder; Geschlechterkonflikt; Silbe; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Frühe Kindheit; Island
Abstract	Purpose: This study investigated Icelandic-speaking children's acquisition of singleton consonants and consonant clusters. Method: Participants were 437 typically developing children aged 2;6-7;11 (years;months) acquiring Icelandic as their first language. Single-word speech samples of the 47 single consonants and 45 consonant clusters were collected using Málhljó[voiced dental fricative]apróf [thorn]M ([thorn]M's Test of Speech Sound Disorders). Results: Percentage of consonants correct for children aged 2;6-2;11 was 73.12 (SD = 13.33) and increased to 98.55 (SD = 3.24) for children aged 7;0-7;11. Overall, singleton consonants were more likely to be accurate than consonant clusters. The earliest consonants to be acquired were /m, n, p, t, j, h/ in word-initial position and /f, l/ within words. The last consonants to be acquired were /x, r, [voiceless alveolar trill], s, [voiceless dental fricative], [voiceless alveolar nasal]/, and consonant clusters in word-initial /sv-, stl-, str-, skr-, [voiceless dental fricative]r-/, within-word /-[voiced dental fricative]r-, -tl-/, and word-final /-k[voiceless alveolar lateral approximant], -xt/ contexts. Within-word phonemes were more often accurate than those in word-initial position, with word-final position the least accurate. Accuracy of production was significantly related to increasing age, but not sex. Conclusions: This is the first comprehensive study of consonants and consonant cluster acquisition by typically developing Icelandic-speaking children. The findings align with trends for other Germanic languages; however, there are notable language-specific differences of clinical importance. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01