Phonological Development

Simplification helps children to communicate. This mainly applies to consonants. There are three main kinds of phonological simplification:

• deletion
  • deletion of a consonant, usually at the end of words e.g. 'ca' rather than 'car'
• substitution
  • replacing a consonant with one that's easier to say e.g. 'wegs' rather than 'legs'
• cluster reduction
  • when there's two or more consonants together in a word, a child may drop one of them e.g. 'geen' rather than 'green'

Berko and Brown - fis phenomenon
Child referred to his plastic fish as a…