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Azzaro, Gabriele – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1990
Part one of this study discussed the characteristics of errors involving single fricative consonants made by English children learning their first language. Here, the second part discusses the distinctive features of the single fricatives most commonly mispronounced, as well as the characteristics of errors with clustered fricatives. (34…
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language), English
Peer reviewedBerg, Thomas – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1991
In-depth analysis of a large corpus of English and German beginning consonant and syllable stress errors revealed that claims regarding these errors can not be replicated for Spanish, leading to the development of hypotheses focusing on Spanish as a pre-final-stress and syllable-timed language. (38 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English
