Presentation - ECV2024-516

Children’s speech development: English (English)

Robert MAYR, Cardiff Metropolitan University Wales, UK (rmayr@cardiffmet.ac.uk)
Rachael-Anne KNIGHT, City, University of London, UK (r.knight-1@city.ac.uk)
Sally BATES, University College of St Mark and St John, UK (sbates@marjon.ac.uk)
Yvonne WREN, University of Bristol/Cardiff Metropolitan University Wales, UK (Yvonne.wren@bristol.ac.uk)
Sara HOWARD, University of Sheffield, UK (s.howard@sheffield.ac.uk)

English (English) is spoken in England and can be distinguished from the other varieties of British English spoken in Scotland and Wales. There are many different varieties, with a broad distinction between northern England and the Midlands, on the one hand, and the southwest, southeast and East Anglia, on the other. English (English) is characterized by 24 consonants, 12 vowels and 7 diphthongs, and complex phonotactic patterns, with words containing up to three initial and four coda consonants. There are a number of studies, including some large-scale ones, that describe typical patterns of children acquiring English (English) although they commonly underreport social and regional variation. There are many studies on speech sound disorders in children from England as well as on children with cleft lip and palate. A common speech assessment is the Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology (DEAP, Dodd et al., 2002), and a common intervention is conventional minimal pairs (Weiner, 1981).

Key words:
English (English), multilingual, communication, speech, language, children’s development, interdisciplinary, international communities, assessment, intervention

Book chapter:
Mayr, R., Knight, R., Bates, S., Wren, Y., & Howard, S. (2025). English (English) speech development. In S. McLeod (Ed.). The Oxford handbook of speech development in languages of the world. Oxford University Press.

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