PMID: 16646212May 2, 2006Paper

Alveolar bias in the final consonant deletion patterns of African American children

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools
Ida J Stockman

Abstract

The variable deletion of word-final consonants is a well-known feature of African American English (AAE). This study aimed to show whether African American children exhibit an alveolar bias in their deletion of final voiceless stops as has been observed for their production of final nasals. The data were extracted from more than 5000 spontaneous utterances in the speech samples of 7 African American children at 32 to 36 months of age. The final alveolar voiceless stop /-t/ was deleted significantly more often in word-final position than were /-p/ and /-k/ in both singleton and clustered contexts. The deletion of /-t/ in final clusters preceding other consonants at word boundaries contributed significantly to this bias. No significant differences were observed among the stops in their relative frequencies of deletion when a vowel sound followed or when the final stop was prepausal at word boundaries. African American children's deletion of final consonants is patterned even at an early age. It varies with whether the voiceless stop consonant is an alveolar sound or not and with the type of phonetic context in which the alveolar stop is embedded. This alveolar stop bias was attributed to phonetic and grammatic constraints on arti...Continue Reading

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Oct 28, 2008·Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools·Gregory C Robinson, Ida J Stockman
Jan 7, 2010·Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools·John J HeilmannAnn Nockerts
May 3, 2019·Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR·Janet L McDonald, Janna B Oetting
Sep 2, 2019·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·I Lei Chan, Charles B Chang

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