PhonBank Clinical English Chiat Corpus

Shula Chiat Language and Communication Sciences City University London shula.chiat.1@city.ac.uk website

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Citation information

• Chiat, Shula (1983). Why Mikey’s Right and My Key’s Wrong: The Significance of Stress and Word Boundaries in a Child’s Output System. Cognition, 14, 275-300.
• Chiat, Shula (1989). The Relation between Prosodic Structure, Syllabification and Segmental Realization: Evidence from a Child with Fricative Stopping. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 3, 223-42
• Chiat, Shula (1994). From Lexical Access to Lexical Output: What is the Problem for Children with Impaired Phonology? In M. Yavas (Ed.), First and Second Language Phonology. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.

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Project Description

Recordings for this project were carried out in a quiet room at school or a clinic. Each child can be considered its own single case study. Utterances were spontaneous in nature through play sessions with the researcher. There were also some elicited repetitions of real words, non-words and phrases to sample the realization of segmental targets in different prosodic positions at the word- and phrase-level.

Participant Name	Age Range	Sessions	Sex
DI<	5;05.16 – 5;05.28	4	M
SB	5;05-26 – 5;07.09	4	M
SR	5;07.21 – 5;08.12	3	M

SR was 5;8 when this experiment was carried out. He had been attending school for one year, and had been referred by the school for speech therapy at 4;10. No abnormalities in SR's development were reported by his mother or by the school, apart from the speech problem which was the reason for his referral to a speech therapist. His hearing was tested by an audiologist and found to be within normal limits. He was diagnosed as having phonological delay. Therapy over the preceding 10 months had focused on production of fricatives. There had been no noticeable improvement in SR's intelligibility between the time of referral and the present investigation. We have less information regarding SB and DI. They were being treated only for phonological disorders and there were no reported concerns about language or any other aspect of their development.