Newton, C;
(2012)
Between-word processes in children with speech difficulties: insights from a usage-based approach to phonology.
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
, 26
(8)
pp. 712-727.
10.3109/02699206.2012.697973.
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Abstract
There are some children with speech and/or language difficulties who are significantly more difficult to understand in connected speech than in single words. The study reported here explores the between-word behaviours of three such children, aged 11;8, 12;2 and 12;10. It focuses on whether these patterns could be accounted for by lenition, as suggested by a usage-based approach to phonology. The children carried out a repetition task, with sentences containing environments that can trigger assimilation and elision. Speech elicited was examined using a combination of perceptual and electropalatographic (EPG) analysis. All of the children produced instances of word boundary behaviours reported in adult speech, as well as some which are considered to be atypical. It is argued that all of these phenomena can be viewed as lenition, and that a usage-based approach to phonology has potential for providing a valuable framework for the description of between-word processes in disordered speech.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Between-word processes in children with speech difficulties: insights from a usage-based approach to phonology |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3109/02699206.2012.697973 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/02699206.2012.697973 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | audiology & speech-language pathology, linguistics, rehabilitation, audiology & speech-language pathology, linguistics, rehabilitation, sci, rehabilitation, ssci, connected speech, electropalatography, speech production measurement, speech disorders, usage-based phonology, tongue-palate contact, connected speech, intelligibility, assimilation, disorders, patterns, therapy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Language and Cognition |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1349851 |
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