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Okalidou, Areti; Petinou, Kakia; Theodorou, Eleni; Karasimou, Eleni – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
The current investigation examined the development of voice onset time (VOT) in Standard-Greek (SG) and Cypriot-Greek (CG)-speaking children at age levels 2;0-2;5, 2;6-2;11, 3;0-3;5, and 3;6-4;0 years. SG presents with a two-way voicing contrast (voiced and voiceless unaspirated stops) whereas CG is a three-way contrast dialect containing…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Age Differences, Audio Equipment, Language Acquisition
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Song, Jae Yung; Demuth, Katherine – Language and Speech, 2008
Children's early word productions often differ from the target form, sometimes exhibiting vowel lengthening when word-final coda consonants are omitted (e.g., "dog" /d[open o]g/ [arrow right] [d[open o]:]). It has typically been assumed that such lengthening compensates for a missing prosodic unit (a mora). However, this study raises the…
Descriptors: Speech, Phonetics, Vowels, Phonetic Analysis