SPTH1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Consonant Cluster, Reduplication, Phonological Development

• School: University of Newcastle
• Department: Speech Pathology
• Course: SPTH1001
• Professor: Joanne Walters

Document Summary

Systematic procedures used by children to make adult words pronounceable. Allow a child to produce an approximation of an adult model. New words are modified to fit existing sound patterns. Early processes are: reduplication, diminutives, assimilation, cvcv construction, open syllables and consonant cluster reductions. Progressive assimilation: using the first consonant dod. Regressive = gog: open syllables: words tends to end in a vowel paypur instead of paper, consonant cluster reduction: star to tar leaving out a consonant cc is too difficult. Early on a child tends to produce the parts of words that are perceptually more noticeable to them. (auditory saliency) Three main types of phonological process: syllabic, consonant deletion, segment change, some processes are part of normal development others are not. Consonant deletion leaves out a sylla(cid:271)le and doesn"t repla(cid:272)e it. Segment change leaves out a sound and replaces it with a new one. Banana to nana weak because the vowel is unstressed.