The Interaction of Word Complexity and Consonant Correctness in Spanish-Speaking Children
Description
This thesis investigated the impact of word complexity as measured through the Proportion of Whole Word Proximity (PWP; Ingram 2002) on consonant correctness as measured by the Percentage of Correct Consonants (PCC; Shriberg & Kwiatkowski 1980) on the spoken words of monolingual Spanish-speaking children. The effect of word complexity on consonant correctness has previously been studied on English-speaking children (Knodel 2012); the present study extends this line of research to determine if it can be appropriately applied to Spanish. Language samples from a previous study were used (Hase, 2010) in which Spanish-speaking children were given two articulation assessments: Evaluación fonológica del habla infantil (FON; Bosch Galceran, 2004), and the Spanish Test of Articulation for Children Under Three Years of Age (STAR; Bunta, 2002). It was hypothesized that word complexity would affect a Spanish-speaking child’s productions of correct consonants as was seen for the English- speaking children studied. This hypothesis was supported for 10 out of the 14 children. The pattern of word complexity found for Spanish was as follows: CVCV > CVCVC, Tri-syllables no clusters > Disyllable words with clusters.
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2013-12
Agent
- Author (aut): Purinton, Kaitlyn Lisa
- Thesis director: Ingram, David
- Committee member: Dixon, Dixon
- Committee member: Barlow, Jessica
- Contributor (ctb): Barrett, The Honors College
- Contributor (ctb): Department of Speech and Hearing Science
- Contributor (ctb): School of International Letters and Cultures