Phonological assessment and analysis tools for Tagalog: Preliminary development.
Information and assessment tools concerning Tagalog phonological development are minimally available. The current study thus sets out to develop elicitation and analysis tools for Tagalog. A picture elicitation task was designed with a warm-up, screener and two extension lists, one with more complex and one with simpler words. A nonlinear phonological analysis form was adapted from English (Bernhardt & Stemberger, 2000) to capture key characteristics of Tagalog. The tools were piloted on a primarily Tagalog-speaking 4-year-old boy living in a Canadian-English-speaking environment. The data provided initial guidance for revision of the elicitation tool (available at phonodevelopment.sites.olt.ubc.ca). The analysis provides preliminary observations about possible expectations for primarily Tagalog-speaking 4-year-olds in English-speaking environments: Lack of mastery for tap/trill 'r', and minor mismatches for vowels, /l/, /h/ and word stress. Further research is required in order to develop the tool into a norm-referenced instrument for Tagalog in both monolingual and multilingual environments.
a School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, University of British Columbia , Vancouver , BC , Canada.
Rachelle Kay
RK
Chen
a School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, University of British Columbia , Vancouver , BC , Canada.
B May
BM
Bernhardt
b Department of Linguistics , University of British Columbia , Vancouver , BC , Canada.
Joseph P
JP
Stemberger
D002170:Canada; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male; D019303:Multilingualism; D010700:Phonetics; D013068:Speech Production Measurement / Q000379:methods
Assessment; Tagalog; phonetics; phonology