TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction The Nature of the Data The Characteristics of the Child Investigated Notes on the Sign Convention

The Period ol the First Fifty Words Prosody Melody of Speech Stress Quantity

Phonology The /a/ The Vowel /e/ The Vowel /i/ The Vowel /o/ The Vowel /u/ Summary The Consonants The Plosive /p/ The Plosive /b/ The Plosive /t/ The Plosive /d/ The Plosive /t/ The Plosive /k/ The Plosive /g/ The Nasal /m/ The Nasal /n/ The Nasal /ft/ Summary The Consonants The /f/, /v/ The Fricatives /s/, /z/, /s/, /z/ The Fricative /j/ The Fricative /x/ The Fricative /h/ The Lateral Consonants The Vibrant Consonants The Semi-occlusive Consonants Summary - o Conclusion ^' Phonemic Shapes of Words bu Parts of Speech 64 Conclusions 66 Tables of Vowel and Phonemes 68

First Fifty Word Vocabulary 72 The Period of the First One Hundred Words 73

Prosody 73 Melody of Speech 73 Stress" Is Quantity 16

Phonology 74 Vowels 74 The Vowel /al 74 The Vowel /e/ ™ The Vowel /i/ 77 The Vowel /o/ 79 The Vowel /u/ 8" Summary 8* Consonants J™ The Plosive consonants 84 The Plosive /p/ 84 The Plosive /b/ °^ The Plosive /t/ ™ The Plosive /d/ 87 The Plosive /t/ 88 The Plosive /d. 89 The Plosive /k/ 90 The Plosive /g/ 91 The Nasal /m/ 92 The Nasal/n/ 92 The Nasal /&/ 94 Summary ™ The Fricative Consonants 97 The Fricative /f/ 97 The Fricative /v/ 98 The Fricative jsj 98 The Fricative /z/ 98 The Fricative /&/ 99 The Fricative /S/ 99 The Fricative /]'/ 99 The Fricative /x/ 99 The Fricative /h/ J°0 The Lateral Consonants 10° The Lateral /l/ J°? The Vibrant Consonants *jj2 The Semi-occlusive Consonants 1"? Summary J03 Conclusion Consonantal Clusters j^9 Phonemic Shapes of Words 11"

Parts of Speech ^4 Conclusions ^7 Tables of Vowel and Consonant Phonemes 12° First One Hundred-Word Vocabulary I24

12 The Period of the First Five Hundred Words 127 , 127 Prosody Melody of Speech j£J Stress Quantity 128 Phonology Vowels \*l The Vowel/a/ £° The Vowel/a:/ The Vowel/e/ The Vowel /e:/ The Vowel/i/ }^ The Vowel/i:/ The Vowel/o/ The Vowel/o:/ "° The Vowel/u/ The Vowel/u:/ }™ Summary , ,„ Consonants . _ The Plosive Consonants l*' The Plosive /p/ \j' The Plosive/b/ The Plosive/t/ J'™ The Plosive /d/ }>" The Plosive /t/ J?* The Plosive /d/ The Plosive /k/ The Plosive /g/ The Nasal /m/ ,™ The Nasal/n/ !™. The Nasal/ft/ Jgj Summary The Fricative Consonants !°* The Fricative /f/ The Fricative /v/ J^'* The Fricative /a/ }gg

The Fricative jzj i7f)

The Fricative /s/ 171 The Fricative /ij The Fricative /;/ The Fricative /x/ The Fricative /h/ ^ The Lateral Consonants ^

The Lateral /l/ l78 The Vibrant Consonants ^ Summary Ig2 The Semi-occlusive Consonants ^g. Summary jgg Conclusion

Consonantal Clusters jpf) Initial Clusters Medial Clusters Final Clusters 200 Sounds in Combinations Assimilation OQ> Haplology 2oi Dissimilation 203 Metathesis 203

The Emergence of New Sounds 2Q3 Hiatus 13 Abbreviation of Words 204 Phonemic Shapes of Words 206

Parts of Speech 214 Conclusions 218 Tables of Vowel and Consonant Phonemes 224 The Survey of Speech Development in the Child 229 First Five Hundred Word Vocabulary 237 Resume 251 Bibliography 254

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