Phonology focuses on how the child speaks in terms of pronunciations, tone and stress.
- Deletion: Final consonants may be dropped, e.g. the 't' in 'hat' and 'cat'. Unstressed syllables will be deleted, for example, 'banana' becomes 'nana' and consonant clusters are reduced, e.g: 'snake' becomes 'nake'
- Substitution: Easier sounds are used instead of difficult ones. For example, the 'r' in 'rock' and 'story' becomes a 'w', therefore, making it become "wock' or 'stowy'.
- Assimilation: When different sounds in a word are pronounced in the same way, e.g. 'dog' becomes 'gog'
- Berko and Brown: Investigated into child language acquisition and found out that similar pronunciations were indistinguishable to children and could still point to pictures of the objects in a comprehension task.
- Intonation: Children can alter their tone and rhythm of their voices before they can speak, for example, in questions, demands, greetings. Children may say "MY car" by putting emphasis on the personal pronoun just shows that the car belongs to the child.
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