Prevalence of Phonological Processes in Normal Two-Year Olds

Although information concerning phonemic acquisition skills of children three years of age and older is adequate to determine if a child's speech inadequacies are abnormal at that age, very little has been reported on the speech development of children younger 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. The purpose of this investigation, then, was to determine what phonological processes characterize the speech of two-year-old children and the extent of their use. For this purpose the productions of 60 children between 1:6 and 2:6 were analyzed with regard to phonological processes. Mean percentages of occurrence of phonological processes demonstrated by these 60 subjects were compared.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Speech and Hearing Science

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Preisser, Debra Ann Goldenstein

• Health Sciences, Speech Pathology

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8324625

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/70677