title: Phonological patterns in Puerto Rican Spanish-speaking children with phonological disorders.
abstract: This study characterizes the phonological patterns in phonologically disordered Spanish-speaking children who speak the Puerto Rican dialect. A single-word assessment was used to describe the mean percentage-of-occurrence and standard deviation of phonological processes and the number and type of nontargeted process errors in 543- and 4-year-olds. Analyses were made in reference to the Puerto Rican dialect of Spanish, yielding a number of specific patterns that characterized the speech of these children.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Disorders, Saint Louis University, MO 63018, USA. goldstba@sluvca.slu.edu
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Goldstein
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Iglesias
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D011647:Puerto Rico; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013068:Speech Production Measurement