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Vietnamese-Speaking Children's Acquisition of Consonants, Semivowels, Vowels, and Tones in Northern Viet Nam
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Ph?m, Ben; McLeod, Sharynne – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate children's acquisition of Vietnamese speech sounds. Method: Participants were 195 children aged 2;2-5;11 (years;months) living in Northern Viet Nam who spoke Vietnamese as their 1st language. Single-word samples were collected using the Vietnamese Speech Assessment (Ph?m, Le, & McLeod, 2016) to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vietnamese, Tone Languages, Language Acquisition
Icelandic Children's Acquisition of Consonants and Consonant Clusters
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Másdótti, Thora; McLeod, Sharynne; Crowe, Kathryn – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Phonemes, Language Acquisition
Speech Characteristics of 8-Year-Old Children: Findings from a Prospective Population Study
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Wren, Yvonne; McLeod, Sharynne; White, Paul; Miller, Laura L.; Roulstone, Sue – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2013
Speech disorder that continues into middle childhood is rarely studied compared with speech disorder in the early years. Speech production in single words, connected speech and nonword repetition was assessed for 7390 eight-year-old children within the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). The majority (n=6399) had typical…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Language Impairments, Speech, Syllables
The Contribution of Polysyllabic Words in Clinical Decision Making about Children's Speech
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James, Deborah G. H.; van Doorn, Jan; McLeod, Sharynne – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
Poor polysyllabic word (PSW) production seems to mark paediatric speech impairment as well as impairment in language, literacy and phonological processing. As impairment in these domains may only manifest in PSWs, PSW production may provide unique information that is often excluded from clinical decision making because insufficient PSWs are…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Phonology, Decision Making, Young Children
Acquisition of /S/ Clusters in English-Speaking Children with Phonological Disorders
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Yavas, Mehmet; McLeod, Sharynne – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
Two member onset consonant clusters with /s/ as the first member (#sC onsets) behave differently from other double onset consonant clusters in English. Phonological explanations of children's consonant cluster production have been posited to predict children's speech acquisition. The aim of this study was to consider the role of the Sonority…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Processing, Speech Communication, Phonemes
Typically Developing and Speech-Impaired Children's Adherence to the Sonority Hypothesis
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Wyllie-Smith, Lynelle; McLeod, Sharynne; Ball, Martin J. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2006
During phonological development, children frequently produce consonant clusters as consonant singletons, a process commonly referred to as cluster reduction. The principles of sonority may provide a theoretical basis for explaining patterns of cluster reduction evident in children's speech. Two studies were conducted to investigate whether…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Speech Impairments, Acoustics, Phonology