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Edwards, Mary Louise – Journal of Child Language, 1974
Perception and production data were collected from 28 children, ages 1 year 8 months to 3 years 11 months to test four specific hypotheses on the acquisition of initial fricatives and glides in English, based on the assumptions that perception precedes production and unmarked precedes marked. Perception data were collected by the Shvachkin-Garnica…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Child Language, Language Acquisition
Edwards, Mary Louise – 1979
The research reported here was carried out to help establish the normal course of fricative acquisition as a basis for comparisons with abnormal development. Three questions concerning phonological processes were investigated as part of a larger study of fricative acquisition: (1) the phonological processes that underlie children's fricative…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Consonants, Language Acquisition