Consonant clusters in disordered speech: constraints and correspondence patterns.
Comparison of patterns of cluster realization from 47 children ranging in age from 3;4 to 6;8 with functional (non-organic) speech disorders with those reported in the literature for normal acquisition reveals that these patterns are essentially the same for both groups. Using a two-level generative phonology for children's independent systems, further analysis of cluster realizations by means of feature geometry and underspecification theory reveals that there are systematic and principled relationships between adult representations of clusters and children's underlying representations and between children's underlying representations and their phonetic representations. With special emphasis on coalescence phenomena, it is suggested that the apparent diversity in children's cluster realizations can be reduced to four constraints on the form of underlying and phonetic representations.
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Department of Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405.
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D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007804:Language Development; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D007807:Language Tests; D007808:Language Therapy; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D014705:Verbal Behavior