GCC Child Development & Phonological Development Organizing Sounds Discussion

Analyzing Gianna’s level of phonological and lexical development

Use evidence from Gianna’s speech sample at the end of the assignment instructions to answer the followingquestions. Answers to the 4 questions should be reported in a single document. Look the sample assignment for reference. Using the same words andsentences from the sample assignment (even if substituting numbers and examples) will beconsidered plagiarism.

PHONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

1. In what stage of phonological development is Gianna in? That is, is she (a) in the pre-linguisticspeech sound development stage? (b) Or in the first words stage? (c) Or in the stage characterized byphonological processes? (d) Or in the period of phonetic inventory completion? (e) Or in the stage ofadvanced phonology? Justify your answer by giving her pronunciation accuracy (in %).

2. Describe at least 4 of Gianna’s phonological processes. Provides different examples for each.

LEXICAL DEVELOPMENT

3. Does Gianna use words referentially (as adults) or are there some context-bound words, over- andunder-extensions? Define each of these and give examples from the sample. Show that you canidentify nouns, verbs and adjectives.

4. Calculate the sample’s lexical diversity and discuss whether there are more nouns, verbs oradjectives in the sample. Use the document titled “Grammar Charts” to get help on how to identifynouns, verbs and adjectives.

ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS, SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT, GRAMMAR CHARTS, GUIDELINES FOR CODING SPEECH SAMPLES ALL PROVIDED TO HELP COMPLETE THE ASSIGNMENT

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