Development of lingual articulations among Cantonese-speaking children

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The vocal tract undergoes substantial physical change from early childhood into late childhood, and it is a commonly held belief that many of the speech production issues that appear during the beginning of elementary school are simply a continuation of earlier speech behaviors rather than novel, atypical behaviors. In this paper, we examine the development of lingual articulation as Cantonese-speaking children mature from a young age toward adulthood, with the question as to whether speech production issues during later childhood are indeed a continuation of speech production patterns in early childhood …