CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Assimilation (changing consonants in a word to be more like other consonants in the word, like gog for dog)

Detailed explanation-2: -Deletion: Children will often simplify pronunciation by deleting certain sounds: Final consonants maybe dropped eg) the ‘t’ sound in ‘hat’ and ‘cat’ Unstressed syllables are often deleted eg) ‘banana’ becomes ‘nana’

Detailed explanation-3: -Consonant Deletion: omission of a consonant in the word initial or word final position. For example: cat-at, cup-cuh. Deaffrication: replacement of an affricate consonant with a fricative consonant, or change of an affricate target phoneme to a stop. For example: chair-share, chair-tair.

Detailed explanation-4: -Assimilation occurs when a consonant sound starts to sound like another sound in the word (e.g. “bub” for “bus”). Children no longer use this process after the age of 3. Denasalization is when a nasal sound like “m” or “n” changes to a nonnasal sound like “b” or “d” (e.g. “dore” for “more”).

Detailed explanation-5: -Coalescence is a phonological process whereby two adjacent sounds are merged into a single sound. This can occur either within a word (e.g., “night” and “nights” merge to form /naɪt/) or across word boundaries (e.g., “do” and “you” merge to form /dʒuː/ in casual speech).