Phonological Development

Phonological Development

1. Cooing

   • is the stage when children start to make sounds and it is very impotant because they need to developed their tongue and their mouth. 6 weeks age

2. Babbling

   • the baby stars to make consonants and vowel sounds and it is important for the baby to distinguish the differents sounds, Age: 4-6 months

3. Developmental order

   • At 12 months the baby stars to say intelilgents words
     • They had acquired about 50 words
   • At gae o 3 vowels are usually acquired before consonants
   • At age of 4 thay have acquired interdental fricatives and the voiced alveolapalatal fricative

4. Early Phonetics Processes

   • Syllable deletion
     • Children use to ommit the final consonant in a word
       • Ex: Cu(p), Do(g)
   • Syllable simplification
     • Inolves the systematic deletion of certain sounds in order to simplify syllable strcture
       • Ex: Stop [tap], Small [ma]
   • Substitution
     • The replacement of one sound by an alternative that the child finds easier to articulate
       • sea [ti], this [dit], ship [sip]
   • Assimilation
     • The modification of one or more features of a segment under the influence of neighbouring sounds
       • Ex: tell [del], pig [big], push [bus], soup [zup]

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