Nasal consonant speech errors: Implications for ‘‘similarity’’ and nasal harmony at a distance

AbstractDespite clinical observation of the problems in emergent literacy experienced by unintelligible children, there are conflicting data about the possible relationship of expressive speech problems to literacy acquisition. Several confounding factors may explain the inconsistency in results across studies. Potential confounds include specificity and severity of speech impairment, age of participants, and pattern of speech errors. It was hypothesised that the presence of nondevelopmental speech errors can be considered a symptom of a breakdown at the level of processing phonological information that has an impact on both speech and literacy development. A cohort of 21 specifically speech-impaired children entering Year 1 at school was selected and classified into subgroups based on pattern of speech errors. Phonological awareness measures were administered early in Year 1 and literacy measures in Year 3. The results confirmed thot the presence of nondevelopmental speech errors predicted poorer phonological awareness skills and weaker literacy outcomes, particularly spelling.

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Starting to Talk Worse: Clues to Language Acquisition from Children's Late Speech Errors

U-shaped Behavioral Growth ◽

10.1016/b978-0-12-673020-3.50012-4 ◽

1982 ◽

pp. 101-145 ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

MELISSA BOWERMAN

Keyword(s):

Language Acquisition ◽

Speech Errors

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Forward Coarticulation of Velar Movement at Marked Junctural Boundaries

Journal of Speech and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/jshr.1602.286 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 286-296 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Michael McClean

Keyword(s):

High Speed ◽

Nasal Consonant

The effects of marked junctural boundaries on the onset of forward velar coarticulation were studied using high-speed cinefluorographic techniques. Three subjects were filmed while producing a constant CVVN sequence with a variety of prosodically marked boundaries falling between the two vowels. Frame-by-frame tracings made of the velum and associated reference structures yielded plots of velar movement over the CVVN sequence. The results showed that the onset of forward coarticulation to the nasal consonant was consistently delayed in those cases where marked junctural boundaries were present. Previous data on velar coarticulation at unmarked boundaries were corroborated, and two patterns of velar movement are described.

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Velumtätigkeit bei der Erzeugung stimmhafter und stimmloser Nasalkonsonanten im Isländischen

Nordic Journal of Linguistics ◽

10.1017/s0332586500000640 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 19-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Magnús Pétursson

Keyword(s):

Temporal Patterns ◽

Stop Consonants ◽

The South ◽

Research Instrument ◽

North West ◽

South West ◽

Different Types ◽

Nasal Consonant

In modern Icelandic, spoken in the South, West, and North-West of Iceland, there is a phonemic opposition between voiced and voiceless nasals before stop consonants. For the present investigation the research instrument was the velograph. The purpose of the research was to investigate patterns of velar movement associated with each type of nasal consonants. The results show different types of velar movement organized according to two separate temporal patterns. For the voiceless nasals the movement of the velum is more rapid and begins earlier than for the voiced nasals. There are also significant differences in the nasalization of the preceding vowel according to whether the following nasal consonant is voiced or voiceless.

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Open class and closed class: Sentence-imitation experiments on intrasentential code-switching

Applied Psycholinguistics ◽

10.1017/s014271640001047x ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 257-276 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Shoji Azuma ◽

Richard P. Meier

Keyword(s):

Response Times ◽

Code Switching ◽

The Other ◽

Speech Errors ◽

Sentence Repetition ◽

Closed Class ◽

Sentence Imitation ◽

Open Class ◽

Japanese English

ABSTRACTOne of the most striking facts about exchange errors in speech is that open class items are exchanged, but closed class items are not. This article argues that a pattern analogous to that in speech errors also appears in intrasentential code-switching. Intrasentential code-switching is the alternating use of two languages in a sentence by bilinguals. Studies of the spontaneous conversation of bilinguals have supported the claim that open class items may be codeswitched, but closed class items may not. This claim was tested by two sentence repetition experiments, one with Japanese/English bilinguals and the other with Spanish/English bilinguals. The results show that the switching of closed class items caused significantly longer response times and more errors than the switching of open class items.

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