Children's identification of their own /s/ misarticulations

Six /s/ misarticulating children, two normal-articulating children, and four adults identified a variety of /s/ productions as normal and defective. The /s/ samples were embedded in short segments of speech spliced from the sentence repetitions of the same eight children. Results indicate that each misarticulator could identify at least some of his or her own productions as defective. Although no statistically significant differences appeared between groups, the two lateralizing subjects exhibited poorer identification scores on defective /s/ items than did the other groups, possibly indicating somewhat poorer auditory monitoring abilities. Included is a discussion of procedural considerations important to research of this type.