Speech sound development in typically developing 2-7-year-old Dutch-speaking children:A normative cross-sectional study

Background: Dutch is a West-Germanic language spoken natively by around 24 million speakers. Although studies on typical Dutch speech sound development have been conducted, norms for phonetic and phonological characteristics of typical development in a large sample with a sufficient age range are lacking. Aim: To give a detailed description of the speech sound development of typically developing Dutch-speaking children from 2 to 7 years. Methods & Procedures: A total of 1503 typically developing children evenly distributed across the age range of 2;0–6;11 years participated in this normati... Mehr ...

Verfasser: van Haaften, Leenke
Diepeveen, Sanne
van den Engel-Hoek, Lenie
de Swart, Bert
Maassen, Ben
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Reihe/Periodikum: van Haaften , L , Diepeveen , S , van den Engel-Hoek , L , de Swart , B & Maassen , B 2020 , ' Speech sound development in typically developing 2-7-year-old Dutch-speaking children : A normative cross-sectional study ' , International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders , vol. 55 , no. 6 , pp. 971-987 . https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12575
Schlagwörter: PHONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT / CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH / ACQUISITION / LANGUAGE / RELIABILITY / VALIDATION / ENGLISH / speech sound development / syllabic structure inventory / phonological processes / Dutch / typical development / phoneme inventory
Sprache: Englisch
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Background: Dutch is a West-Germanic language spoken natively by around 24 million speakers. Although studies on typical Dutch speech sound development have been conducted, norms for phonetic and phonological characteristics of typical development in a large sample with a sufficient age range are lacking. Aim: To give a detailed description of the speech sound development of typically developing Dutch-speaking children from 2 to 7 years. Methods & Procedures: A total of 1503 typically developing children evenly distributed across the age range of 2;0–6;11 years participated in this normative cross-sectional study. The picture-naming task of the Computer Articulation Instrument (CAI) was used to collect speech samples. Speech development was described in terms of (1) percentage consonants correct—revised (PCC-R) and percentage vowels correct (PVC); (2) consonant, vowel and syllabic structure inventories; (3) degrees of complexity (phonemic feature hierarchy); and (4) phonological processes. Outcomes & Results: A two-way mixed analysis of variance (ANOVA) confirmed a significant increase in the number of PCC-R and PVC between the ages of 2;0 and 6;11 years (p < 0.001). The consonant inventory was found to be complete at 3;7 years of age for the syllable-initial consonants, with the exception of the voiced fricatives /v/ and /z/, and the liquid /r/. All syllable-final consonants were acquired before age 4;4 years. At age 3;4 years, all children had acquired a complete vowel inventory, and at age 4;7 years they produced most syllable structures correctly, albeit that the syllable structure CCVCC was still developing. All phonological contrasts were produced correctly at 3;8 years of age. Children in the younger age groups used more phonological simplification processes than the older children, and by age 4;4 years, all had disappeared, except for the initial cluster reduction from three to two consonants and the final cluster reduction from two to one consonant. Conclusions & Implications: This paper ...