Does Early Phonetic Differentiation Predict Later Phonetic Development? Evidence From a Longitudinal Study of / ɹ/ Development in Preschool Children

Conclusion Low vocabulary size, low inhibitory control, poor speech perception, and the absence of early phonetic differentiation are not necessarily limiting factors in predicting /ɹ/ growth in individual children in the age range we studied.PMID:34057848 | DOI:10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00555

Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - May 31, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Benjamin Munson Mara K Logerquist Hyuna Kim Alisha Martell Jan Edwards Source Type: research