The study found that 8 language-impaired 3-year-old children were less likely than 10 normally developing children to apply unusual sound changes to words with the potential for homonymy, suggesting they are limited in their ability to capitalize on the phonetic regularities of language. (Author/DB)

The paper presents a detailed examination of an unusual pattern reflected in the speech of a 3-year-old language-impaired child. Training was instituted to increase the number of appropriate categories in the child's phonologic system. (Author/CL)

The paper presents a case study of a phonologically disordered child whose intelligibility seemed particularly hindered by his use of both metathesis and sound preference and whose preferred sounds was promoted by other sounds in the words. Findings indicate the importance of considering contextual effects when examining for systematicity and…

Reports three studies concerning individual differences in children's use of consonants during early phonological development. The findings indicate that these differences fall within a predictable range, that the linguistic environment cannot account for several of them, and that they are partly due to variations in the choice of lexical items.…

Mothers in 22 mother-child dyads read 5 experimental stories aloud to their children and to an adult during which the durations of 7 function-word vowels were measured. Only function-word vowels in the final position (rather than initial or medial) were significantly longer in child-directed rather than adult-directed speech. (Author/DB)