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Explicit speech segmentation and syllabic onset structure: developmental trends

P Bertelson1, B de Gelder, M van Zon

  • 1Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. portlsn.ulb.ac.be

Psychological Research
|January 1, 1997
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Children find it easier to segment initial consonants in complete syllable onsets (CVCC) than in cluster onsets (CCVC). This speech segmentation skill develops with age, with younger children benefiting from playful learning methods.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Speech Science

Background:

  • The hierarchical theory of syllable structure is applied to understand explicit speech segmentation development.
  • Previous research suggests initial consonant isolation ease depends on syllable onset complexity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the developmental trajectory of speech segmentation in young children.
  • To test the prediction that complete syllable onsets (CVCC) facilitate initial consonant isolation more than cluster onsets (CCVC).

Main Methods:

  • Children from kindergarten to second grade were tested on initial consonant deletion and comparison tasks using CVCC and CCVC syllables.
  • A puppet game with pretraining was used for kindergarteners in a follow-up experiment.

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Main Results:

  • First and second graders showed better performance on CVCC material for consonant deletion but not for comparison tasks.
  • Kindergarteners performed poorly initially but showed significant improvement with the puppet game intervention for CVCC syllables.
  • Results indicate a developmental precedence of onset segmentation over phoneme segmentation.

Conclusions:

  • Syllable onset structure significantly impacts early speech segmentation abilities.
  • Developmental improvements in speech segmentation are evident from kindergarten to second grade.
  • Play-based learning can enhance segmentation skills in younger children, supporting the role of onset segmentation in phoneme segmentation development.