Consonant inventory of Swedish speaking 24-month-olds: A cross-sectional study
E. Gardin, Maria Henriksson, Emilia Wikstedt, Marie Markelius, Lena F. Renner · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · 2014
This cross-sectional study examines the consonant inventory of Swedish speaking twenty-four-month olds. The results are compared with English speaking children at the same age. 15 audio files recorded from 13 children were transcribed using independent analysis. Individual inventories where constructed for both word-initial and word-final consonants for each subject. The results are to a high degree consistent with the findings in the study compared. Anterior consonants are more frequent in the subject’s inventories than posterior ones in both initial and final word position. Word initial voiced plosives are more common in the inventories than voiceless with the reverse situation i.e. voiceless plosives are more frequent than voiced in word final position.