Phonological Development
May 30, 2013Phonological development stages
- Early perception of speech sounds (1-4 months) Babbling shades into early speech, next toddlers produce those sounds they babbled. Babbling is dominated by stops, nasals, and glides, with a few of fricatives and affricatives and no liquids. Children take a few years to learn to articulate correctly the phonemes, with better performance on vowels than consonants.
- Babbling (6-15 months) By imitation, repetition, and practice, children learn to approximate their pronunciation of sound sequences to that of adults.
- Learning to produce phonemes (1-2 years) Children simplify complex syllable structures by dropping the final consonant in CVC: boot -> /bu/, ball -> /bɔ/, one consonant in a cluster: drum -> /dʌm, an unstressed syllable: ba’nana /nɑnɑ/, gi’raffe -> /rɑf/, the final syllable while repeating the initial consonant/vowel syllable: water /wɑwɑ/
- Learning to produce sound sequences (1-2 years) Children also substitute sounds – an easy, consonant for a difficult one. (For example: stops for fricatives, that for /dæt/, zglides for liquids, little ->/wɪto/ {Children may mispronounce sounds that they can correctly hear and identify.
- Sensitivity to phonotactics (3-4 years)
Posted by Kelly Ott. Posted In : Articulation/Phonology
With 24 years experience as a licensed Speech Language Pathologist,
consultant, educator and administrator, Kelly has served children and adults with a diverse range of speech, language, swallowing, learning, and communication needs. She has provided direct speech pathology services, specialized instructional services, educator professional development training, business communication, and presentation training. Kelly is dedicated to providing students, educators, and small businesses with specialized strategies for achievement.
