Speech patterns in Cypriot-Greek late talkers

The investigation longitudinally examined the phonetic skills of Cypriot-Greek children with late onset of expressive vocabulary. The rate of phonological development within short time increments and the identification of possible speech constraints motivating slow development of expressive language...

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Published in:Applied psycholinguistics 2006-07, Vol.27 (3), p.335-353
Main Authors: PETINOU, KAKIA, OKALIDOU, ARETI
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Children
Children & youth
Cyprus
Data analysis
Data collection
Delayed Speech
Expressive Language
Foreign Countries
Greek
Greek language
Inventories
Language
Language Acquisition
Language Skills
Learning disabilities
Linguistics
Longitudinal Studies
Neighborhoods
Onset (Phonology)
Phonemes
Phonetic analysis
Phonetics
Phonological rules
Phonology
Preschool children
Sample size
Skills
Speech
Time
Vocabulary Development
Young Children
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Summary:The investigation longitudinally examined the phonetic skills of Cypriot-Greek children with late onset of expressive vocabulary. The rate of phonological development within short time increments and the identification of possible speech constraints motivating slow development of expressive language were examined. Participants were seven Cypriot-Greek children identified as late talkers, and seven age-matched normally developing counterparts. Phonetic skills were examined at ages 30, 33, and 36 months for both groups based on spontaneous language samples. Phonological analyses focused on the construction of all subjects' phonetic inventories over time. Both groups exhibited an increase of specific phoneme use over time. Late talkers had significantly poorer phonetic inventories when compared to the control group. Within the experimental group the analysis revealed the persistent omission of word-initial consonants. Results are discussed in terms of language-specific phonological constraints and their relation to slow development of speech.
ISSN:0142-7164
1469-1817
DOI:10.1017/S0142716406060309