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Univerzálne a špecifické vo fonologickom vývine
Universal and specific in phonological development

Author(s): Iveta Bónová
Subject(s): Language acquisition, Cognitive linguistics
Published by: Vydavateľstvo Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove
Keywords: phonological development;individual and general;consonantal groups;relation of phone and phoneme in children’s speech;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper – based on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of children’s speech – we identify universal and specific features typical for phonological development of individuals. Comparing the exactly set parameters (especially the value of the index of understandability and the value of syllable length of children’s words) with the findings from the quantitative analysis (identified phonological processes and consonantal groups) in the analysed acoustic strings retrieved from the natural speech environment we reveal a universal feature significant for Slovak speaking children with the identical degree of phonological development. It is an occurrence of consonants and consonantal (binomial/trinomial) groups in the initial, middle and final position of generated words and forms.

  • Issue Year: II/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 21-29
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Slovak