Consonant acquisition: a first approach to the distribution of errors in four positions in the word

Abstract

El objetivo de este estudio es describir el comportamiento de los errores que se producen en dos tipos de/nataques (inicial e intervocálico) y dos tipos de codas (medial y final de palabra) para determinar si estas/nposiciones son propensas a una tipología específica de errores. Con este fin, se han estudiado los errores/nque se producen habitualmente en estos cuatro contextos durante la adquisición de los sonidos/nconsonánticos de la lengua catalana, en 90 niños de edades comprendidas entre 3 y 5 años, procedentes de/ndiversos centros educativos. Los resultados muestran que hay diferencias en el tipo de errores que/nexperimenta cada posición.The goal of this study is to describe the behavior of errors in two types of onsets (initial and intervocalic)/nand two types of codas (in the middle and end of the word) in order to determine if any of these positions/nare more prone to specific types of errors than the others.We have looked into the errors that are/nfrequently produced in these four contexts during the acquisition of consonant sounds in the Catalan/nlanguage. The data were taken from a study on the acquisition of consonants in Catalan, carried out on 90/nchildren between the ages of 3 and 5 years from several kindergarten schools. The results do show that/nthere are characteristic errors depending on the position within the word.