[EDLING:2021] Re: child language question

[Freddie E. Bowles]

William O'Grady (2005, pp. 155-159) in How Children Learn Language  discusses how children will replace the more difficult sound with an easier one.  He describes the different processes used for these substitutions and the sounds they produce.  For example, the "stopping" process produces a sound that completely cuts off the flow of air, so for the theta (th) sound, a "d" is produced (this becomes dit) and the "s" becomes "t".

Freddie Bowles
PhD Graduate Student
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Peabody Hall 125
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
479-575-3035
fbowles at uark.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: sicola at dolphin.upenn.edu
Date: Saturday, November 4, 2006 3:37 pm
Subject: [EDLING:2020] child language question
To: "edling at ccat.sas.upenn.edu" <edling at ccat.sas.upenn.edu>

> Does anyone have a reference or two that mentions typical 
> substitutions for 
> the theta (voiceless-th) by young L1-English children? (E.g. My 
> three-year-old 
> nephew said "I'm free years old!" thus substituting [f] for 
> theta.) I'm 
> generally looking for typical developmental substitutions, though 
> would be 
> interested in examples of substitutions due to speech disorders as 
> well, as 
> long as it's in young children. Are there commonly-cited sources 
> showing 
> patterned substitution, particularly of the /s/, /t/ or /f/ (or 
> other)?
> Again, I'm specifically looking for L1, not L2, information.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Laura
> 
> 
> -- 
> Laura Sicola
> University of Pennsylvania
> PhD Candidate 
> Educational Linguistics
> 
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