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Volume 22:8 August 2022
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Syllable Deletion, Syllable Addition, Syllable Substitution and Syllable Restoration Tasks in Odia-speaking Typically Developing Children, Children with Learning Disability and Children with Phonological Misarticulation

Mr. Venkat Raman Prusty and Dr. Arun Banik

Abstract

Speech is the audible manifestation and spoken medium of language. The study of speech sound systems in a language is called Phonology and falls under the category form of the three sub-fields of Linguistics. Phonological skills development is one of the basic foundations before language mastery of a child. Language-specific phonological and morpho-phonemic rules make it essential to test various aspects designed to assess different phonological abilities in that specific language.

Odia, an alphasyllabic language of the Indic group of the Indo-European family, has unique features of few phonemes, morphophonemic and morphosyntactic rules, dissimilar to its sister languages. This study includes an analysis of data obtained for many tasks like phoneme deletion, addition, substitution, and restoration tasks as a part of Ph.D. research to construct a screening test in Odia language. After construction of stimuli by pilot studies, the main stimuli (words, non-words, word pairs, sentences etc.) were presented to a total of 480 typically developing children (12 subgroups) in the age range of 3-12 years and 20 children with Learning Disability, 20 children with Phonological misarticulation and 40 Adults. The results were analyzed gender-wise, age and group-wise for each task. Comparison of skills developing for typically developing children to that of children with Learning Disability and phonological misarticulation gives an insight into possible processing of information at various stages and abnormalities in those stages.

Keywords: Odia language, Developmental changes, Syllable deletion, Addition of syllable, Substitution of a syllable, Phoneme restoration, Learning Disability, Phonological misarticulation

Introduction

The scientific study of human language, linguistics, is broadly broken into three categories or subfields of structurally motivated domains: form, content, and use. Phonology, the study of speech sound system, falls under the first sub-filed- form. Psycholinguistics, the study of the underlying cognitive processes, deals with the psychological and neurobiological factors, enabling individuals to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language as a reflection of inherent mental processes.

The development of various psycholinguistic abilities correlates with mental abilities sophisticated for language functions; therefore, any abnormality in the pattern can explain underlying problems and help intervention. The skills start potentially with observable, measurable behaviors like the deletion of syllables to form words, the addition of syllable or substitution of a syllable to make a meaningful word or even restoration of a syllable when missed or replaced by noise.

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Mr. Venkat Raman Prusty
Audiologist & Speech Language Pathologist
AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
prustyvr@gmail.com


Dr. Arun Banik
Director
Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for Speech and Hearing Disabilities
Mumbai, Maharashtra
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