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Abstract

The study reports the findings of production analysis and perceptual tests of subjects with fronting of velars from Hindi/Marati language backgrounds. The acoustic characteristics of voiceless aspirated velar and dental plosives in normal children and subjects with fronting of velars is reported. The production based acoustic analysis included the measurement of both spectral and durational features both specific to the consonant and segments of the test words. Perceptual tests probed the speech disordered subject's , perception of contrast in adult output, and their own output. Furthermore, it tested the normally articulating children's perception of the output of subject's with fronting of velars.

The results of the perceptual experiments indicated that some velar fronting children demonstrated significant difference in their identification skills compared to adult trained listeners while listening to their own production of the target words. The production analysis revealed that some children maintained significant differences in their word initial voiceless aspirated velar and dental plosive words. The results are discussed in-terms of earlier findings and its clinical implications.

Publication Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PK Indo-Iranian R Medicine > RZ Other systems of medicine
Departments:	School of Health & Psychological Sciences > Language & Communication Science School of Health & Psychological Sciences > School of Health & Psychological Sciences Doctoral Theses Doctoral Theses

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