Investigation of the speech production errors in the production of consonant clusters in children with phonological disorders: quantitative analysis

• Grant number: 14/09605-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): June 29, 2014
• Effective date (End): August 09, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Larissa Cristina Berti
• Grantee: Aline Mara de Oliveira
• Supervisor: James MacKinnon Scobbie
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil
• Research place: Queen Margaret University (QMU), Scotland
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/00513-8 - Gestural coordination in the production of consonant clusters in children with typical and atypical language development., BP.DR

Abstract

In Gestural Phonology (henceforth GF), a CV (consonant and vowel) syllable is a more stable pattern of coordination - C and V in phase (Goldstein et al., 2007). Consonant Clusters (CCs) is in phase with an adjacent vowel and anti-phase between two different consonants (Goldstein et al, 2006); Van Lieshout and Goldstein, 2008). Errors in the production of CCs in children are featured in traditional literature as a process of simplification (Ribas, 2004) or consonant cluster reduction (Yavas et al., 2001). The hypothesis is that their errors in the production of CCs by children can be reductions in the C2 (tap) gesture magnitude of the CC syllable, which are not perceptually detectable. Thus, the possible covert contrast present in the production of this type of structure syllable can be identified by acoustic and/or articulatory analysis. The goal of this internship is to resort to quantitative measurements, learn how to perform analyses with the software AAA (Articulate Assistant Advanced), and also verify which ones are sensitive enough to capture the presence of the C2 gesture and measure its magnitude. A sample from the doctoral project will be used: Investigation of the gesture coordination in the production of consonant clusters among children with typical and deviating language development" (FAPESP proc. 2013/00513-8), which consists on data coming from a typical child, with a phonological disorder, and an adult. The 20 recorded words (with the minimal pairs: CV and CCV) were recorded and analyzed by AAA, developed by Articulate Instruments Ltd (Queen Margaret University, Scotland). (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ALINE MARA DE OLIVEIRA; LARISSA CRISTINA BERTI. CONTORNO DE LÍNGUA DE CRIANÇAS BRASILEIRAS COM DESVIO FONOLÓGICO: MEDIDAS DE DURAÇÃO E DESLOCAMENTO DA LÍNGUA. Alfa, rev. linguíst. (São José Rio Preto), v. 66, 2022-02-28. (14/09605-5, 13/00513-8)