The phenomenon of child-specific phonological processes represents a longstanding challenge for efforts to arrive at a coherent model of phonological development. These processes may be robustly attested in the speech of typically developing children, yet extensive cross-linguistic investigation reveals no counterpart in adult phonological typology. Developmental consonant harmony (DCH) is one ...

This paper addresses one of the most contested issues in phonology: the derivation of phonological typology. I argue that the unnatural process of postnasal devoicing does not derive from a single unnatural sound change, but rather from a combination of two or three sounds changes, each of which is natural and well-motivated. Evidence from both historical and dialectal data is brought to bear t...

The processes through which readers evoke mental representations of phonological forms from print constitute a hotly debated and controversial issue in current psycholinguistics. In this paper we present a computational analysis of the grapho-phonological system of written French, and an empirical validation of some of the obtained descriptive statistics. The results provide direct evidence dem...

This article sketches some of the most important aspects of the sound pattern of Modern Japanese, focussing on segmental processes and restrictions. Even at this basic level of phonological organization, an empirically and conceptually adequate description requires explicit reference to the large-scale stratification of the Japanese lexicon into morphemes of different classes. A secondary purpo...

Purpose: To describe the typical course of phonological acquisition in Brazilian Portuguese, in view of clinical usage. Methods: A picture naming test was used to collect speech samples from 480 children (240 female and 240 male) enrolled in public and private schools in the city of Rio de Janeiro, who were divided into five age groups between 3 and 8 years. Three types of analyses were conduct...

PURPOSE To describe the typical course of phonological acquisition in Brazilian Portuguese, in view of clinical usage. METHODS A picture naming test was used to collect speech samples from 480 children (240 female and 240 male) enrolled in public and private schools in the city of Rio de Janeiro, who were divided into five age groups between 3 and 8 years. Three types of analyses were conduct...

PURPOSE This collaborative study investigated phonological patterns in 12 typically developing 4-year-old bilingual (Spanish-English) children. METHOD A single-word phonological assessment with separate versions for English and Spanish was administered to each child. Analyses consisted of a phonetic inventory; percentage of consonants correct; percentage of consonants correct for voicing, pla...

Purpose: To compare the occurrence of altered phonological processes and to use the severity index of phonological disorder to compare speech and writing samples from dyslexic students and students with good academic performance. Methods: Participants were 34 students of both genders from second to fifth grade, with ages between 8 years and 11 years and 11 months, divided into: G1 (17 students ...

An audiological and linguistic screening was conducted on 40 threeand four-year old children at an early childhood center. The effect of middle-ear infections, flat tympanograms, and thresholds above 25 dB on the production of phonological patterns was examined. Children failing the audiological screening show a lower number of adult words (75%) and a higher number of substitutions (22%) and de...

This study examined the relationships between the cognitive processes of rapid naming and phonological processing and various literacy skills. Variables measured and used in this analysis were phonological processing, rapid naming, reading comprehension, isolated and nonsense word reading, and spelling. Data were collected from 65 second-to-fifth grade children referred for learning difficultie...