Mom, Dad, and Ball: Manner of Articulation Sequences Within Children's Consonant--Vowel--Consonant Words.
Purpose: Previous studies of early speech acquisition have established characteristics of phonemes and syllable structures produced by young children. Fewer studies compared patterns in children's within-word phoneme sequences of the target words with their actual productions. Additionally, studies...
| Published in: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 68; no. 10; pp. 4688 - 4708 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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