Abstract
The current paper focuses upon the results of an acoustic study of consonant substitution and elision cases in the speech of ten Russian normally developing 3,6-3,9 year-old children. 2580 occurrences of consonants were studied by means of dynamic spectrograms. Compared to the data obtained from the same subjects half a year ago, the proportion of consonant substitution and elision instances remained the same with the considerable prevalence of the former. As expected, the number of both substitution and elision cases was reduced compared to the one noticed 6 months ago. Only forelingual consonants were subjected to elision while labial, mediolingual and velar consonants were not omitted at all. Substitution of /r/ and /ʃ/ were among the most frequent.6
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