The Development of Voiceless Sibilant Fricatives in Putonghua-Speaking Children

Contrast and covert contrast: The phonetic development of voiceless sibilant fricatives in English and Japanese toddlers

This paper examines the acoustic characteristics of voiceless sibilant fricatives in English-and Japanese-speaking adults and the acquisition of contrasts involving these sounds in 2- and 3-year-old children. Both English and Japanese have a two-way contrast between an alveolar fricative (/s/), and a postalveolar fricative (/∫/ in English and /ɕ/ in Japanese). Acoustic analysis of the adult pro...

Production and Perception of the Voiceless Sibilant Fricatives in Typically Developing Children with Applications for Children with Cleft Palate

Language specificity in the perception of voiceless sibilant fricatives in Japanese and English: implications for cross-language differences in speech-sound development.

Both English and Japanese have two voiceless sibilant fricatives, an anterior fricative /s/ contrasting with a more posterior fricative /∫/. When children acquire sibilant fricatives, English children typically substitute [s] for /∫/, whereas Japanese children typically substitute [∫] for /s/. This study examined English- and Japanese-speaking adults' perception of children's productions of voi...

Running Head: Language-Specific Perception Language specificity in the perception of voiceless sibilant fricatives in Japanese and English: Implications for cross-language differences in speech-sound development

Both English and Japanese have two voiceless sibilant fricatives, an anterior fricative /s/ contrasting with a more posterior fricative /S/. When children acquire sibilant fricatives, English children typically substitute [s] for /S/, whereas Japanese children typically substitute [S] for /s/. This study examined Englishand Japanese-speaking adults’ perception of children's productions of voice...

Formant-cavity affiliation in sibilant fricatives