title: On the unity of children's phonological error patterns: distinguishing symptoms from the problem.
abstract: This article compares the claims of rule- and constraint-based accounts of three seemingly distinct error patterns, namely, Deaffrication, Consonant Harmony and Assibilation, in the sound system of a child with a phonological delay. It is argued that these error patterns are not separate problems, but rather are symptoms of a larger conspiracy to avoid word-initial coronal stops. The clinical implications of these findings are also considered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. Dinnsen@indiana.edu
authors.forename: Daniel A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Dinnsen
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D055154:Dysphonia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D010699:Phonation; D013068:Speech Production Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology / Q000379:methods*