The acquisition of initial consonant clusters in German-speaking 2-year-olds

Schaefer, Blanca; Fox-Boyer, Annette

doi:10.1080/17549507.2016.1221450

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“…Ott, van de Vijver & Hohle (2006) state that C clusters behave differently in the language acquisition of children with delayed phonological acquisition. However, a more recent study (Schaefer & Fox-Boyer, 2017) showed that C clusters were acquired at a similar age to other clusters in German-speaking children when fronting of / /…”

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“…Some children produced a phonetic variation towards [x]. Children did not come from strong dialectal regions, thus there were no expected variations on /v/ (see alsoSchaefer & Fox-Boyer, 2017).To ensure that all children met the inclusion criteria, parents and caregivers were asked to complete a questionnaire about their children's language and developmental histories. Selection criteria were included as follows: monolingual German-speaking children, no history of speech and language difficulties, no significant hearing loss, no other physical / cognitive impairments.MaterialTwo versions of the Psycholinguistische Analyse Kindlicher Aussprachestörungen (PLAKSS-II,Fox-Boyer, 2014; PLAKSS, Fox, 2005), a well-established picture naming test to assess phonetic and phonological skills in German-speaking children, were administered.…”

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Patterns in German /ʃC/-cluster acquisition

Yavaş

Fox-Boyer

Schaefer

2018

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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This study reports on the developmental patterns of /ʃC/ clusters in 145 normally developing monolingual German-speaking children between 2;00 and 2;11. All children completed a picture naming task to allow a systematic qualitative analysis of the production patterns. Children's reductions of target /ʃC/clusters are examined and are evaluated with respect to two models, 'factorial typology' and 'headedness', to account for them. The results reveal expected patterns of C2 retention for '/ʃ/+[-continuant]' (e.g. '/ʃ/+stop' and '/ʃ/+nasal') targets, and a rather indeterminate pattern for /ʃl/ and /ʃʁ/. The results for /ʃv/, a clear-cut preference of C2 retention, were rather unexpected, as the C2 is a [+continuant]. The explanation offered for the retention of /v/ is related to a place constraint. The study also examines the data from children who reached an advanced stage of cluster formation with differential targets. More specifically, in several children, one target, /ʃv/, is found to have stayed behind in the reduction phase while all others have advanced to the 'cluster stage'. Neither the type nor the token frequencies seem satisfactory in accounting for the specific behaviour of /ʃv/. The explanation offered for the uniqueness of this target may be its non-abidence to the Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) because of its flat sonority and the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) [continuant], because of the unchanging 'continuance' which is demanded by the OCP. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed.

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Patterns in German /ʃC/-cluster acquisition

Yavaş

Fox-Boyer

Schaefer

2018

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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“…1 Crosslinguistically, some two-year-olds are able to produce #CC, though their production is often non-adult-like, with tendencies to reduce clusters to single consonants or, more rarely, to eliminate them through epenthesis, metathesis or other means (e.g. Greenlee, 1974;Jarosz, 2017;Lleó & Prinz, 1996;Ohala, 1999;Schaefer & Fox-Boyer, 2017;Stemberger & Chávez-Peón, 2015). The majority of phonological approaches to the acquisition of word-initial consonant clusters attempt to model discrepancies between child and adult speech.…”

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The Acquisition of Russian Word-Initial Consonant Clusters in a Russian-American English Bilingual Child: An Overview of One Child’s Exceptional Production

Kistanova

2021

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The majority of approaches to the acquisition of phonology attempt to model discrepancies between child and adult speech, with less attention given to children whose pronunciation is accurate. This is especially true in the acquisition of consonant clusters, where models attempt to explain children’s “errors” or non-adult-like production in terms of articulatory difficulty or phonological markedness effects. In this study, dense longitudinal data from one child’s third year show exceptional production of Russian word-initial consonant clusters. Though other studies suggest that sonority sequencing plays a central role in consonant cluster acquisition, no support for sonority-based generalizations are found in the naturalistic speech data of a two-year-old bilingual Russian-American English girl, Ulijana. On the contrary, sonority reversals were acquired early, while ideal sonority clines were acquired late. Alternative explanations for observed patterns include frequency effects and the articulatory difficulty of segments.

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Icelandic Children's Acquisition of Consonants and Consonant Clusters

Másdóttir

McLeod

Crowe

2021

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose This study investigated Icelandic-speaking children's acquisition of singleton consonants and consonant clusters. Method Participants were 437 typically developing children aged 2;6–7;11 (years;months) acquiring Icelandic as their first language. Single-word speech samples of the 47 single consonants and 45 consonant clusters were collected using Málhljóðapróf ÞM (ÞM's Test of Speech Sound Disorders). Results Percentage of consonants correct for children aged 2;6–2;11 was 73.12 ( SD = 13.33) and increased to 98.55 ( SD = 3.24) for children aged 7;0–7;11. Overall, singleton consonants were more likely to be accurate than consonant clusters. The earliest consonants to be acquired were /m, n, p, t, j, h/ in word-initial position and /f, l/ within words. The last consonants to be acquired were /x, r, r̥, s, θ, n̥/, and consonant clusters in word-initial /sv-, stl-, str-, skr-, θr-/, within-word /-ðr-, -tl-/, and word-final /-kl̥, -xt/ contexts. Within-word phonemes were more often accurate than those in word-initial position, with word-final position the least accurate. Accuracy of production was significantly related to increasing age, but not sex. Conclusions This is the first comprehensive study of consonants and consonant cluster acquisition by typically developing Icelandic-speaking children. The findings align with trends for other Germanic languages; however, there are notable language-specific differences of clinical importance.

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The acquisition of initial consonant clusters in German-speaking 2-year-olds

Cited by 6 publications

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Patterns in German /ʃC/-cluster acquisition

Patterns in German /ʃC/-cluster acquisition

The Acquisition of Russian Word-Initial Consonant Clusters in a Russian-American English Bilingual Child: An Overview of One Child’s Exceptional Production

Icelandic Children's Acquisition of Consonants and Consonant Clusters

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