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Essay / Analysis of the transcription of a child's speech - 1242
IntroductionThis research aims to analyze the transcription of a child's speech. The target child is a female named Majorie, aged 2 years and 3 months. The transcript is from the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. The linguistic aspects that will be examined are the child's phonological processes, including speech errors, syllable shapes, and their phonetic inventory consisting of manner and place of articulation. The analysis will include her stage and development of her lexical knowledge and the words she uses. Phonological processes The child appears to conform to the normal development demonstrated by other children of his age. According to Carol Stoel-Gammon (1987), a 24-month-old child should be able to make a /b/ sound in the initial position just as the child does in statement 6 (p.327). It can also make a /n/ sound in final position. See statement 39.6 here in bed. .39 you change mine, okay? One mistake she makes, however, is stopping. It takes what would normally be fricatives and turns them into plosives. For example, 2 da [: the] sad baby and da [: the] crying baby .69 dza [: the] crying boy. It also shows signs of channel changes. In the examples above, she exchanges the fricative “th” in “the” for a stop like “da”. Other times, the child pronounces “the” correctly.29 Where is the dog?62 I close the door with the boy. The child exhibits an error called final consonant deletion. Instead of fully enunciating the word until the end, she drops the last consonant. This is seen in statements 1 and 72.1 I want a pen and a book72 a circle has Oma and (d) Opa. The “d” in both bolded words is missing. She has difficulty with the "d" in middle of paper... as the harmony of the consonants can change the word to make it incomprehensible. The CVC syllable form was the most common for her. This form is general in many English names. The syllables are not complex and long, but she is still young and learning. His phonetic inventory is well developed. She has no difficulty creating age-appropriate speech sounds. The child is just above normal because he can produce more adult sounds than his peers. She has mastered her articulators and knows how to manipulate her oral cavity to produce the correct sounds. The child's lexical inventory is well developed. She has no trouble finding the words to express her thoughts. Few words are repeated and this shows that she has a large vocabulary where she does not need to borrow words. She neither overextends nor underextends the use of her words..