The phonetic development of normal-hearing pre-school children / 临床耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE@#To collect the daily speech materials and to discuss the speech development of normal-hearing pre-school children.@*METHOD@#Based on the database of daily speech materials of children who are 3 to 5 years old, from separate monosyllabic word to syllable,analysis the frequency of words and compare them with adults.@*RESULT@#In the spoken words of children who are 3 to 5 years old, we can find all Mandarin phonemes. With independent sample t test, it was shown that there is no significant difference in the distributing of phonemes between children and adults.@*CONCLUSION@#Children who are 3 years old have developed the phonetic system of the language basically.