| Abstrakt: |
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 morphophonemic 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
