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Idiosyncratic consonant clusters: a Farsi-speaking child with protracted phonological development
Froogh Shooshtaryzadeh1, Joseph Paul Stemberger2
1English Translation Department, Faculty of Literature and Humanity, Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU), Gazvin, Iran.
Abstract:
This study presents a nonlinear phonological analysis of speech data from a Farsi-speaking child with protracted phonological development (aged 4;8) with very low accuracy on consonants. Results revealed some common phenomena (fricatives produced as stops; dorsals and non-anterior coronals produced as anterior coronals) and some uncommon phenomena (nasals produced as oral stops; voicing and devoicing of singleton obstruents in all word positions). These phenomena interacted in word-medial clusters to create an unusual sequence of two anterior-coronal or two bilabial stops, with C1 voiced and C2 voiceless, clusters which do not occur in the basic phonology of Farsi spoken by adults. We present a non-linear constraints-based analysis of the child's speech production and a plan for intervention targeting the child's special difficulties.
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