How Do Children Organize Their Speech in the First Years of Life? Insight From Ultrasound Imaging

Conclusions Results support the view that, although coarticulation degree decreases with age, children do not organize consecutive articulatory gestures with a uniform organizational scheme (e.g., segmental or syllabic). Instead, results suggest that coarticulatory organization is sensitive to the underlying articulatory properties of the segments combined.
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research