The answer to the question,“What are the phonetic abilities of infants in the first year?”
requires first an answer to another question,“What are the possible phonetic abilities at this …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the prediction of child speech errors. Speech
substitutions are sensitive to the child's developmental stage. As the child recognizes his …

The subjects of this report are identical (monozygotic) twin boys who differ in auditory
function. One has normal hearing; the other has a profound hearing loss bilaterally. These …

Evidence is reviewed regarding three types of unusual and/or subtle phonological behaviors
in the speech of phonologically disordered children. The models of child phonology that are …

The present study examined the ability of newborns and 2-month-olds to detect phonetic
differences between syllables. By relying on the modified high-amplitude sucking procedure …

The errors on consonant singletons made by children in the Iowa-Nebraska Articulation
Norms Project (Smit, Hand, Freilinger, Bernthal, & Bird, 1990) were tabulated by age range …

Considerable interest has been generated concerning linguistic and cognitive factors
influencing the onset of early combinatorial speech. The present diary study provides …

Results of an investigation of developmental speech relationships show that the effect of
vowel environment on consonant duration previously noted for adults was not present in the …

This paper reviews instrumental studies of" functional" misarticulations in children and
reports an experiment involving acoustic measures of the duration of normally articulated …

This study investigated the nature of phonological delay in a group of children with specific
language impairment. It was asked whether phonological errors in this group of children …