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  • Speech-language pathology
  • Developmental psychology

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  • Child speech acquisition involves universal and language-specific factors.
  • Phonological processes (speech errors) manifest differently across languages.
  • Understanding these cross-linguistic variations is crucial for speech development research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the phonological effects of common speech error patterns across different languages, target audiences, and discourse modes.
  • To compare the impact of these errors using a novel large-scale corpus analysis method.
  • To assess the face validity of phonological effect measures against expert intelligibility ratings.

Main Methods:

  • Simulated six frequent speech error patterns (backing, fronting, stopping, /r/-weakening, cluster reduction, weak syllable deletion) in authentic corpus data.
  • Quantified phonological effects using five metrics of complexity and distance from target forms.
  • Compared effects using Swedish child speech as a reference against Norwegian, English, and Swedish data across different discourse modes and audiences.

Main Results:

  • The speech error pattern 'backing' demonstrated the most detrimental effects universally across languages, discourse modes, and speaker ages.
  • Phonological effects varied significantly depending on the language and discourse context.
  • None of the quantitative measures accurately reflected speech-language pathologists' subjective intelligibility ratings.

Conclusions:

  • Speech error patterns have differential impacts influenced by linguistic and contextual factors.
  • 'Backing' is identified as a particularly disruptive phonological process.
  • Current phonological effect measures require refinement as they do not fully capture perceived intelligibility impacts.