Strategies Used by Children with Typical and Atypical Phonological Development during the Blocked Syllable Acquisition

Conflict of interest: non-existent planning, as well as phonological memory and auditory processing1. Moreover, during this period of language acquisition, in order to acquire the sounds which are part of their environment’s language, the learner uses some repair strategies. These strategies are used as an attempt to adapt the performance of the targetsystem to their phonological system, simplifying their productions in a natural movement of adaptation of the output with their skills1,2. The children with typical acquisition use these repair strategies for a certain period, according to the characteristics of each phoneme1,2. However, when the use of those strategies remain beyond the period of typical acquisition there is phonological disorder3,4. „ INTRODUCTION