Acquisition of /S/ Clusters in Croatian Speaking Children with Phonological Disorders

Autor/inn/en	Mildner, Vesna; Tomic, Diana
Titel	Acquisition of /S/ Clusters in Croatian Speaking Children with Phonological Disorders
Quelle	In: Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 24 (2010) 3, S.224-238 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0269-9206
DOI	10.3109/02699200903362893
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Language Processing; Visual Stimuli; Speech Communication; Phonemes; Educational Technology; Accuracy; Gender Differences; Computer Uses in Education; Special Needs Students; Special Education; Diagnostic Tests; Language Acquisition; Speech Evaluation; Phonological Awareness; Syllables; Speech Impairments; Phonemic Awareness; Cross Cultural Studies; Language Research; Suprasegmentals; Comparative Analysis; Slavic Languages; Speech Language Pathology; Preschool Children; Articulation (Speech); Error Patterns; Croatia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sprachverarbeitung; Fonem; Unterrichtsmedien; Geschlechterkonflikt; Computernutzung; Sonderpädagogischer Förderbedarf; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Silbe; Speech impairment; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Language handicps; Language impairments; Sprachbehinderung; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Sprachforschung; Slawische Sprache; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Fehlertyp; Kroatien
Abstract	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 /[labiodental approximant]/ (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. (Contains 4 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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