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Elbert, Mary; McReynolds, Lieja V. – Language and Speech, 1985
Describes a study that examined the organization inherent in children's misarticulations of final consonant sounds. Specifically, it inquired whether, when children with final stop and fricative omissions are taught to produce either stops or fricatives in word-final positions, generalization occurs to untaught items or only to taught items.…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Consonants, Language Research
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Eblen, Roy E. – Language and Speech, 1982
Spontaneous and imitated-sentence responses of six children were examined for their sound patterns in the acquisition of /x/, /f/, and /s/. The data tend to support the position that children may produce forms exemplifying geographical-dialectical constraints, general developmental processes, and variability in development across children.…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Consonants, Foreign Countries
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Fokes, Joann; And Others – Language and Speech, 1985
Describes an investigation of the phonetic characteristics of children's second language acquisition, focusing on acoustical correlates of the voicing contrast for stop consonants, as produced by young native speakers of Arabic who were learning English as a second language. Neither age nor experience with English could predict phonetic…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Arabic, Arabs, Child Language