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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"phonological processes"”.
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Prevalence of Phonological Processes in Normal Two-Year Olds
… than three years of age. The development of phonological process theory has improved the means for studying the emerging phonological skills of the younger child. An adequate description of the sequential suppression of processes in normal phonological development is presently unavailable. …
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Examining the Quick Spell Test : how does it relate to phonological processes, naming speed, orthographic processing, and reading?
… study. The data included a battery of phonological awareness, naming speed, phonological decoding, orthographic processing, and reading ability measures administered in both grades. I found that the Quick Spell Test was a good concurrent predictor of reading ability in Grade 3, but not …
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The Frequency of Occurrence of Phonemes in the Speech of Aphasics
… study described and compared the occurrence of phonological processes in the single word responses of the subject groups. The frequency of phonemes and the occurrence of phonological processes were then analyzed jointly for possible trends.</p> <p>Analysis of the spontaneous language samples of …
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Thodisiso ya tshanduko dza mibvumo dzi bveledzwa nga pfalandothe kha Tshivenda
… This proposal focuses on a study of selected phonological processes involving Tshivenḓa vowels. The Tshivenḓa phonological processes involving vowels under this study include vowel elision/deletion, vowel epenthesis, vowel coalescence, vowel nasalisation, vowel harmony, vowel raising and glide …
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Aspects of IsiXhosa phrasal phonology
… Taken as a given that the application of phonological processes is determined by well-defined linguistic units, it is argued here that post-lexical phonological processes such as Penultimate Vowel Lengthening, Word-Final H Deletion, and Left Branch Delinking and Right Branch Delinking …
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Use of Visual Phonics in the Remediation of Children's Phonological Disorders
… sequentially. Children acquire the adult phonological system by simplifing their productions through the application of phonological processes. Speech-language pathologists target phonological processes for remediation when they are atypical of children's developmental stage or when the …
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Theoretical aspects of Dakota morphology and phonology
This thesis investigates some morphological and phonological processes in Lakota, and American Indian language. It attempts to show that recent revisions of and additions to the theories of morphology and phonology will more adequately account for certain problematical processes in Lakota. A recent …
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Aspects of the phonology of Sukwa: an optimality theoretic analysis
Phonological studies of Bantu languages have continued to be an area of investigation for many scholars over the years. These studies have discussed the language's sound patterns syllable structures, phonological processes and suprasegmental features and have based their analyses on various …
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Assessing the functional adequacy of children's phonological systems
… assessing the functional adequacy of children's phonological systems which are restricted in terns of their contrastive potential. A phonological system is considered functionally adequate if it differentiates between the lexical items in a lexical system which is its function to support. …
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An exploration of the occurrence of speech sound disorders in children with autism spectrum disorder aged 4;0 ? 7;11 years
… and phonotactic structures, the occurrence of phonological processes, oro-motor ability, and prosody. Phonological delays were the most commonly occurring SSDs, this was followed by articulation disorders, phonological disorders and inconsistent phonological disorders. No participants in the …
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The acquisition of Setswana phonology in children aged 3;0 – 6;0 years : a cross-sectional study
… syllable structures, as well as the nature of phonological processes occurring at various ages. The study followed a cross-sectional design with six children grouped into each six month age band. Due to the preliminary and exploratory nature of the project, an assessment tool was developed and …
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Underspecification in Korean Phonology (Morphology)
… system constrains possible types of phonological processes in a given grammar.
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The articulatory basis of positional asymmetries in phonological acquisition
Child phonological processes that lack counterparts in adult phonological typology have long posed a problem for formal modeling of phonological acquisition. This dissertation investigates child-specific processes with a focus on the phenomenon of neutralization in strong position, whereby children …
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The phonology and morphology of verb forms in Mubi
… and suffixes. This chapter also demonstrates the phonological processes of vowel assimilation, devoicing, nasal assimilation, and consonant epenthesis.</p> <p>The Mubi verb appears in three forms: the infinitive, perfective, and imperfective. This thesis shows that verbs follow regular patterns …
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Constraints on vowel-zero alternations in Hungarian
… I show that there is an interaction between phonological processes that repair phonotactically illicit consonant clusters – like voicing assimilation, gemination, affrication – and vowel-zero alternations. I present a proposal relying on underspecification that correctly predicts that these …
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Intelligibility: From Phoneme to Process
… preliminary investigation explores the impact of phonological processes on speech intelligibility. The influence of traditional articulation theory and phonological theory on the assessment of unintelligible speech is reviewed. Traditionally based articulation assessment of speech intelligibility …
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Linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of the omission of sounds and syllables in isiXhosa speech: an explanatory guide for 2nd language learners of the language
… commonly truncated forms in the language and the phonological processes at play so that entry level students of the language (as a 2nd language) as well as more advanced learners would have access to commonly reduced words as well as explanations of the most widely occurring phonological processes …
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The phonetics and phonology of coronal markedness and unmarkedness
… unmarked pattern is attested through diverse phonological processes such as assimilation, place neutralization, segmental and featural deletion, metathesis, vowel syncope and morpheme structure constraints. This follows from the context-free place markedness hierarchy proposed by Prince and …
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Phonemic inventory of the Shor language
… describes the phonemic inventory and morphophonological properties of the Shor language. Shor is a Turkic language spoken in southwest Siberia, in the area designated as Mountainous Shoriya. It is one of more than 100 minority languages spoken in the territory of Russia, and it is currently …
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