![]() If your child ever embarrassed you in public by reducing the /tr/ in truck to the /f/ sound, welcome to the club-we've got hats (truckers' hats, in fact!). A child may omit one of the sounds ( speak, spot, become peak, pot, though they may sound more like beak, bot, since the /p/ sound in these words is unaspirated) or they may combine them into a completely new sound ( scrape, scream become chape, cheam). Consonants occurring between vowels, such as the /t/ in kitty and the /l/ in pillow, are in a very weak position, and are prime candidates for omission.Ĭonsonant cluster reduction: a consonant cluster is two or more consonants in a sequence without any vowels between them, such as the /sp/ combination in speak, spot, or the /skr/ combination in scrape, scream. Intervocalic consonant deletion: Intervocalic means between vowels. Initial consonant deletion: Similarly, some children omit the first sounds of words that begin with consonants ( rice becomes ice). For example, they will pronounce boat as boe or feet as fee. Palatal fronting: Similar to velar fronting, except that palatal sounds /sh, zh, ch, j/ are affected ( shoe, vision, cheer, juice change to sue, vizzin, seer, zuice, respectively).įinal consonant deletion: Some children leave off the last sound of a word if that sound is a consonant. Children with velar fronting may pronounce can't as tan't or goose as doose. Sometimes children produce these sounds as /t/ and /d/ respectively, making contact between the front of the tongue and the alveolar ridge just behind the front teeth. Velar fronting: The /k/ and /g/ sounds are articulated by making contact between the back of the tongue and the velum or soft palate. ![]() However, if they persist beyond age five or six, therapy may be necessary. ![]() These processes are a normal and natural part of language development and are to be expected in children just beginning to speak. These are errors that affect entire classes of sounds rather than individual sounds. ![]() In addition to simple articulation errors, children may produce erroneous phonological processes. Phonological processes affect entire classes of sounds ![]()
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