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Phonological acquisition of Korean consonants in conversational speech produced by young Korean children*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

MINJUNG KIM ,
SOO-JIN KIM  and
CAROL STOEL-GAMMON
MINJUNG KIM
Affiliation:
Department of Human Communication Studies, California State University-Fullerton, California, USA
SOO-JIN KIM*
Affiliation:
Department of Communication Disorders, Korea Nazarene University, Korea
CAROL STOEL-GAMMON
Affiliation:
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
*
Address for correspondence: Soo-Jin Kim, Department of Communication Disorders, Korea Nazarene University, 456 Ssangyong-dong, Cheonan-City, Choong Nam, 330-718. Korea. tel: 82-41-570-7806; fax: 82-41-570-7846; e-mail: sjkim@kornu.ac.kr
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Abstract

This study investigates the phonological acquisition of Korean consonants using conversational speech samples collected from sixty monolingual typically developing Korean children aged two, three, and four years. Phonemic acquisition was examined for syllable-initial and syllable-final consonants. Results showed that Korean children acquired stops and nasals followed by affricates, fricatives, and the liquid. In general, Korean consonants were acquired earlier in syllable-initial position compared to syllable-final position, except for the liquid /l/. The findings are compared with previous research based on single-word assessments, and differences that appear to be associated with the unique morphological system of Korean are noted.

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Journal of Child Language , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , July 2017 , pp. 1010 - 1023
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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korean Grant Funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2014S1A5A2A014419).

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