Word structure and consonant interaction in a French-speaking child with protracted phonological development

This paper presents data from a Québec French-speaking child with protracted phonological development (PPD) who received phonological intervention based on a nonlinear phonological framework. At 5;3, he showed relative strengths in word structure compared with consonants (e.g., /s, f, v, k, ɡ/). Addressing segmental constraints in intervention led to higher overall accuracy and more consistent production of singleton consonants and word-medial consonant sequences and further gains in word structure. As part of a special cross-linguistic issue on individual profiles in PPD, the current paper provides an in-depth pre/post-treatment phonological analysis and contributes to emerging normative French-Canadian data on assessment and treatment.

本文呈现了一名魁北克法语儿童的相关数据：该儿童罹患迁延性语音发育迟缓（protracted phonological development, PPD），并接受了基于非线性语音学框架的语音干预。5岁3个月时，相较于辅音（如/s/、/f/、/v/、/k/、/ɡ/），该儿童在词汇结构维度上表现出相对优势。干预过程中针对节段性限制的优化措施，使其整体语音准确率得到提升，单辅音及词中辅音序列的产出一致性显著增强，词汇结构能力亦获得进一步发展。作为探讨迁延性语音发育迟缓个体特征的跨语言特刊的组成部分，本文提供了治疗前后的深度语音学分析，同时为逐步完善的加拿大法语语音评估与治疗常模数据集贡献了相关数据。