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442 test 2
the preschool child
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Communication
Undergraduate 4
03/25/2012

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Term
reduplication 
Definition
  • a very early precess 
  • usually during first 50 word stage 
Term
final consonant deletion 
Definition
  • usually supressed by age 3 at the latest 
  • other studies showed even earlier (2;2 &2;5)
Term
unstressed syllable deletion (weak syllable deletion)
Definition
  • one study says by age 4
  • another study says before 3
Term
cluster reduction 
Definition
  • this is a process that is suppressed relatively late
  • is often seen in 5 year olds 
  • sometimes seen as late as 8-9 years old (this is a smaller % of kids however) 
Term
epenthesis 
Definition
  • common in preschool children, or up to age 5 
  • example "pu-lease" 
Term
stopping of fricatives *
Definition
  • no general rule 
  • depends on the fricative 
  • different ones have stopping suppressed at earlier ages than others 
Term
Fronting* 
Definition
  • one study reported suppression by age 3:6
  • another indicated presence until age 5 
Term
Gliding 
Definition
  • extends beyond age 5 
Term
assimiliation processes 
Definition
  • typically suppressed by age 3 
Term
study completed by Stoel-Gammon and Dunn revealed these results dissapearing by age 3
Definition
  • unstressed syllable deletion 
  • final consonsant deletion 
  • consonant assimilation 
  • reduplication 
  • fronting (velar fronting) 
  • prevocalic voicing 
Term

these processes persist after age 3

 

Definition
  • cluster reduction
  • epenthesis
  • gliding 
  • vocalization 
  • stopping 
  • depalatization 
  • final devoicing
Term
metaphonology 
Definition
  • childs conscious awareness of sounds within a language 
  • child ability to discen how many sounds are in a word or which sounds constitute the beginning of a word 
  • eg. "this" "as" "dis" is spelling because of pronounces 
Term
prosodic feature development 
Definition
  • children are still learning stress rules, etc into teen years 
  • ex: even some teens may have difficulty with differences between "she dressed, and feed the baby" and "she dressed and fed the baby" 
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