Abstract: For many children, the acquisition of language does not follow a normal developmental course. For the child with developmental phonological disorder (DPD), the simplification processes which are found in immature speech do not resolve spontaneously as they do in typically developing children. As a result, the child with DPD may persist in using forms such as [tat] for ‘cat’ (fronting), [peɪn] for ‘plane’ (consonant cluster reduction), and [dɔ] for ‘dog’ (final consonant deletion) beyond the chronological age at which these phonological processes normally resolve. Often, there is no clear reason why phonological immaturities and deviances persist, and the child displays normal development in other language and non-language areas.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-04-10
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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