title: A Spanish pilot investigation for a crosslinguistic study in protracted phonological development.
abstract: A crosslinguistic study is underway concerning children's protracted phonological development (i.e. speech sound disorders). The current article reports pilot Spanish data for this study from two 4-year-old boys with protracted phonological development. The purposes of the pilot study were to: (1) develop and evaluate a word list for elicitation that could be used across Spanish dialects and that sufficiently sampled Spanish word lengths, stress patterns, word shapes and phonemes; and (2) to derive hypotheses for the larger study, based on patterns found in these children's speech, and a review of the literature. The two speakers showed some developmental patterns reported for other languages (e.g. constraints on production of liquids and word-initial consonants in unstressed syllables) but also patterns that may reflect Spanish phonological inventories, allophony and frequencies. These data helped consolidate the Spanish word list for elicitation and led to questions for the ongoing study concerning word structure, multisyllabic words, liquids, fricatives and vowel sequences.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Becas Posdoctorales, Coordinación de Humanidades, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
authors.forename: Mario E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Chávez-Peón
authors.forename: Barbara May
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Bernhardt
authors.forename: Marcy
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Adler-Bock
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Avila
authors.forename: Gloria
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Carballo
authors.forename: Dolores
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fresneda
authors.forename: Conxita
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lleó
authors.forename: Elvira
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mendoza
authors.forename: Denisse
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Perez
authors.forename: Joseph Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Stemberger
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001184:Articulation Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D019303:Multilingualism; D010700:Phonetics; D010865:Pilot Projects; D013070:Speech Therapy; D014825:Vocabulary; D055815:Young Adult