Words with an affricate in the onset exhibit a specific syllable structure
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The retrieved literature touches on affricates within CV syllables and their developmental acquisition, but does not provide sufficient data to establish a specific unique syllable structure for words featuring an affricate in the onset.
Relationship between early pronunciation processes and later pronunciation skill.
Two boys who exhibited different early phonological processes for the maintenance of syllables in polysyllabic words were studied at two subsequent times during the phonology development period. At Time 1 (mean age 1:10) one child used assimilation and reduplication, while the other used glottal and glide replacement. At Time 2 (mean age 3:8) and Time 3 (mean age 6:0) the children maintained differences in types and frequencies of process use. The child using glottal and glide replacement lagged somewhat behind the other regarding the rate of process dissolution, especially for those processes affecting affricates and clusters. The longitudinal data suggest that early processes applied to polysyllabic words may be predictive of later pronunciation skill for the production of continuous speech.
Published in The Journal of speech and hearing disorders (1985)
Palatometric specification of stop, affricate, and sibilant sounds.
This investigation used palatometry to study stops, sibilants, and affricates in CV syllables (C = t,d,k,g,tf,d3; V = i,a) spoken by nine normal 6- to 14-year-old children. The measures focused on place, manner, timing, and area of linguapalatal contact. Similarities and differences between the sound classes, actions across segments of the articulatory gestures, and age effects were identified and described. The affricates were observed to have stop and sibilant portions demarcated by a partial plateau in the linguapalatal contact releasing gesture. The sibilant portion was formed in the same place and with the same groove dimensions as /f,3/. The older subjects reached initial articulatory positions faster, produced the consonant sounds more quickly, generated vowels with shorter durations, and articulated more posteriorly than did younger ones.
Published in Journal of speech and hearing research (1989)
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