RESUMO
Systematic sound preference was described as a common phonological process seen in young children with unintelligible speech. In its classic form, sound preference occurred when an entire class of sounds was replaced by one sound. Sound preference most commonly occurred in the word-initial position and affected fricatives more frequently than any other manner category. In cases where sound preference did not affect all members of a manner of production, it affected the voiceless and/or non-labial sounds.
Assuntos
Linguística , Distúrbios da Fala/fisiopatologia , Fala/fisiologia , Pré-Escolar , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Testes de Articulação da FalaRESUMO
This investigation determined the effects of listener uncertainty on articulatory inconsistency. Subjects were 15 children between three and five years of age. Each subject was tested to find a set of 45 pictures to which articulatory responses would contain sound errors on: /f,v,th,s,ts,dz/. After one week, articulatory responses to these 45 stimuli elicited by traditional picture naming techniques were compared to productions of the same words elicited in an experimental communication setting. The number of sound errors decreased significantly (p less than or equal to 0.01) in the experimental communication setting when the listener pretended to be uncertain of what the speaker said. This finding was interpreted to mean that listener uncertainty may increase the effectiveness of articulatory remediation procedures if included in treatment programs.