Profiling the phonological abilities of 2-year-olds: a longitudinal investigation. Child Language Teaching and Therapy

The purpose of this report is to profile the changes in phonological skills produced by a group of 12 children between the ages of 24 and 36 months. Conversational samples obtained from the subjects at 3-month intervals were analysed for phonetic content, prevalent error patterns, syllable shapes and consonant clusters produced. In addition, per cent of consonants correct (PCC) and mean length of utterance (MLU) information is also reported. Phonological development of 2-year-olds The expanding services of speech-language pathology has included providing intervention to children younger than 3 years of age. For many children this includes an assessment of intelligibility by indicating the number of different sounds the child can produce in different positions of words (independent analysis) as well as measuring how well the child can produce the adult model (relational analysis). Typically, the child’s productions are compared to normative data, however for childre