Characterization of uncommon repair strategies used by a group of children with phonological disorders

PURPOSE: to verify and identify the use of uncommon repair strategies in children with phonological disorders, relating the use of those to age and gender variables to linguistic variables such as degree of deviation, syllable structure, classification of the sounds and the position of the word. METHODS: the data are taken from a database of the Department of Language and Speech studies of the Federal University of Santa Maria. We selected the data according to these criteria: diagnosis of phonological disorder, ages from 4:0 to 7:11, and the ones who were allowed to participate by signing the consent form. The results obtained at the first phonological assessment of the child were analyzed. RESULTS: there were significant differences in the use of the uncommon repair strategies in our sample, as well as the relationship between the use of those strategies and age, mainly between the ages from 5:0 to 5:11, and the degree of deviation with more occurrences in the moderate-severe disorder. It was also obtained a significant relation between the classes of sounds, with predominant use of the fricatives. An occurrence of the unusual repair strategies in onset position was observed, being the consonant-vowel the only structure found. CONCLUSION: it was found that the unusual repair strategies are not widely used by children with phonological disorders. In addition, it was found a significant relationship between the use of repair strategies and unusual variables, such as age, grade of phonological disorders and classes of sounds.

研究目的（PURPOSE）：旨在验证并识别语音障碍（phonological disorder）儿童所采用的非典型语音修正策略（uncommon repair strategies），并将此类策略的使用情况与年龄、性别变量，以及偏差程度、音节结构（syllable structure）、音位分类（classification of the sounds）、词中位置（position of the word）等语言学变量建立关联。
研究方法（METHODS）：数据取自圣玛丽亚联邦大学语言与言语研究系的数据库。本研究依据以下标准筛选研究对象：确诊为语音障碍、年龄介于4岁0个月至7岁11个月之间，且已签署知情同意书允许参与本研究的儿童。本研究对儿童首次语音评估所得的结果进行分析。
研究结果（RESULTS）：本研究样本中，非典型语音修正策略的使用存在显著组间差异；同时该类策略的使用与年龄存在显著关联，尤其在5岁0个月至5岁11个月年龄段群体中表现突出；且与语音障碍偏差程度存在显著关联，中重度障碍群体的策略使用频次更高。此外，不同音位类别间亦存在显著关联，擦音（fricatives）的使用占主导地位。研究还观察到，非典型修正策略多出现于词首位置，且仅在辅音-元音（consonant-vowel）音节结构中被发现。
研究结论（CONCLUSION）：本研究发现，语音障碍儿童并未广泛使用非典型语音修正策略。此外，修正策略的使用与年龄、语音障碍偏差程度、音位类别等变量均存在显著关联。