Fortition and lenition patterns in the acquisition of obstruents by children with cochlear implants.

This paper investigates patterns of error production in 10 children who use cochlear implants, focusing specifically on the acquisition of obstruents. Two broad patterns of production errors are investigated, fortition (or strengthening) errors and lenition (or weakening) errors. It is proposed that...

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Publicado en:Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 233 - 252
Autores principales: Kim J, Chin SB
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2008
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