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The Phonological Analysis Of Bilingual Creole/English Children Living In South Florida, Carolyn F. Beaubrun Nov 2004

The Phonological Analysis Of Bilingual Creole/English Children Living In South Florida, Carolyn F. Beaubrun

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The purpose of this study was to gather normative data regarding the phonological system of bilingual Creole-English children ages three and five and to compare performance to norms for English speaking children. The forty participants lived in Miami and represented low socio-economic groups.

Participants were assessed using the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation-2 and a Haitian Creole Picture Naming Assessment. The results indicated that the percentage of correct phonemes in Creole (M=91.6) were not significantly different when compared to the correct production of the same phonemes in English (M=92.8). Further analysis revealed that the accuracy of all phonemes was higher for …