| Abstract |
The current study examined stop consonant production in children with cleft lip and/or palate (CP ± L) 2-6 months following palatal surgery. Prospective comparative study. Multisite institutional. Participants included 113 children with repaired CP ± L (mean age = 16 months) who were participating in the multicenter CORNET study. Procedures: Parents of participants were asked to record approximately two hours of their child's vocalizations/words at home using a Language ENvironmental Analysis (LENA TM ) recorder. Four ten-minute audio-recorded samples of vocalizations were extracted from the original recording for each participant and analyzed for presence of oral stop consonants. A minimum of 100 vocalizations were required for analysis. Preliminary findings indicate that at least one oral stop was evident in the consonant inventory for 95 of the 113 children (84%) at the time of their post-surgery 16-month recording, and 80 of these children (71%) were producing two or more different stops. Approximately 50% of the children (57/113) produced the three voiced stops, and eight of the children (7%) were producing all six stop consonants. The findings of this study suggest that the majority of children with repaired CP ± L from English-speaking homes are producing oral stops within six months following palatal surgery. Similar to same-age children without CL ± P, voiced stops were more frequently evident in the children's inventories than voiceless stops. In contrast to findings of previous reports suggesting place of articulation differences, a somewhat comparable percentage of children in this study produced voiced bilabial, alveolar, and velar stops. |
| Authors |
Mary Hardin-Jones   , Kathy Chapman , Libby Heimbaugh , Ann E. Dahill , Caitlin Cummings , Adriane L. Baylis , Sarah Hatch Pollard
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| Journal Info |
SAGE Publishing | The Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal , pages: 105566562311599 - 105566562311599
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| Publication Date |
2/22/2023 |
| ISSN |
1055-6656 |
Type |
article |
| Open Access |
closed
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| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.1177/10556656231159974 |
| Keywords |
Cleft Lip (Score: 0.527445) , Child-Directed Speech (Score: 0.527129) , Speech Production (Score: 0.526428) , Early Vocabulary Development (Score: 0.519531) , Articulatory Phonetics (Score: 0.512433)
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