This case study of a seven-year-old Portuguese-speaking child examined hypotheses concerning systematic sound preference (where a group of sounds with the same manner of articulation is represented by one or two sounds in production). Word position and stress patterns were found to be important in the systematicity of sound preference. (Author/DB)

A study of the use of the complex Finnish morphological rule system in 45 children, aged 20-24 months, examined the children's inflection of nouns and verbs in speech characteristic of everyday Finnish. Analysis of the correct, unanswered, and incorrect test items found six classes of errors, which were then examined for clues to the underlying…