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Process Density Index (PDI) Scores in Typically Developing Children between 3;0 to 7;0 Years of Age: Evidence from Dravidian Tulu
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John, Sunila; Veena, Kadiyali D.; Nelson, Hanna; Aithal, Venkataraja Udupi; Patil, Rekha; Rajashekhar, Bellur – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2020
Various speech metrics have been developed to assess and monitor phonological development in young children. Process Density Index (PDI) is one such measure employed to determine the severity of phonological errors and speech intelligibility. The present study explored the utility of PDI as a measure of phonological development in 756…
Descriptors: Phonology, Scores, Intelligibility, Child Language
Regularity of Sound Change Through Lexical Diffusion: A Study of "s"
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Krishnamurti, BH. – Language Variation and Change, 1998
Gondi, a Dravidian language spoken by 2.2 million people in central India, is a chain of dialects, some of which are not mutually intelligible. This study looked at a two-step sound change, responsible for this dialect division. (ER)
Descriptors: Dialects, Dravidian Languages, Foreign Countries, Language Variation
The Intelligibility of Indian English. Monograph No. 4.
Bansal, R. K. – 1976
Twenty-four English speakers from various regions of India were tested for the intelligibility of their speech. Recordings of speech in a variety of contexts were evaluated by listeners from the United Kingdom, the United States, Nigeria, and Germany. On the basis of the resulting intelligibility scores, factors which tend to hinder…
Descriptors: Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies