ON THE ACQUISITION OF ESTONIAN

The speech of a 2*.year-old monolingual Estonian Child was Studied over a period of six months. The child's initial and medial consonants and clusters were examined and charted to highlight het difficulties: Stops and nasals were easier-than fricatives and $0000ts; by 1 year 7 months the labials were essentially master:4144 tricatives we more difficult, and the /r / sound had not been achieved at all.-Final consonants were also studied, as were vowels tund clisters. Vowels /i/,. /a/, /u / were simpler, lint /e / and /o/ harder to say, both in stressed and unstressed uae. The, phonological. ptocesses were examined to determine what'orginizing principle IS At work in sound selection.. Syntactic and morphological analysis allowed classification and quantification of words in the child's lexicOnfo with common nouns by far the most numerous. The total lexicon is appended to the report. (CK