Phonological Development

Front 1

Addition

Back 1

Adding an extra vowel sound to create a cvcv structure e.g horse becomes horsey and mum becomes mummy dog becomes doggie

Front 2

Deletion

Back 2

Leaving out the last consonant of a word so a word like mouse is pronounced as mou eg pig would be pi

Front 3

Reduplication

Back 3

Repetition of particular sounds and structures e.g choochoo and weewee

Front 4

Substitution

Back 4

One sound is swapped for another easier sound like rabbit becomes wabbit and sing becomes ting

Front 5

Consonant cluster reduction

Back 5

Reduce groups of two or more consonants to smaller units e.g daI for dry

Front 6

Deletion of unstressed syllables

Back 6

The removal of an entire unstressed syllable from a word e.g banana becomes nana and pyjamas becomes jamas

Hint 6

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Front 7

Assimilation

Back 7

Process in which substitution takes places but the sound changes because of other sounds around it e.g doggie- goggie