SYLLABLE ORGANIZATION AND PHONOTACTIC COMPLEXITY IN TYPICAL CHILD SPEECH

Abstract

This qualitative longitudinal study examines the emergence and stabilization of syllable patterns in typical child speech, based on two sessions from the Florianópolis corpus (TalkBank/CHILDES) of a child aged between 1;08.21 and 2;02.08. The analysis drew on orthographic and phonetic transcriptions after listening to the recordings, focusing on the produced syllable patterns. The study identified a predominance of CV structures and recurrent simplification processes typical of child speech.