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The study investigates the phonological processes of language-impaired children between the ages of 5 and 15. They were drawn from different special schools within Akwa Ibom State. They were purposively selected to examine the severity of the disorder for possible therapy and remediation. The study focused on the phonological processes of fricative...
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... under investigation have problems articulating/g/ as /g/ at the word-initial boundary (see Table 2 below). The study confirms the findings in the studies of Bricker (1967), Olmsted (1971), and Snow, (1963 as cited in Miccio and Ingrisano 2016) that fricatives are sound classes that most times are mispronounced by children learning English and have more significant proportion and a more extensive range of substitutions than other consonant, as well as Smit (1993), that stops were used primarily as substitutions for word-initial fricatives and affricates. ...