Singleton consonant onset acquisition in monolingual Granada Spanish-speaking preschoolers with typical versus protracted phonological development: Impacts of word structure and feature constraints Bernhardt, Barbara May Raymond, Gabriela Ávila Martín, María Del Carmen Cáceres Serrano, Pablo Carballo García, María Gloria Fresneda López, María Dolores Mendoza Lara, Elvira Hoang, Kaaren Liu, Lydia Muñoz López, Juana Pérez Herrera, Denisse Stemberger, Joseph P. Phonological development Granada Spanish Speech sound disorders While consonant acquisition clearly requires mastery of different articulatory configurations (segments), sub-segmental features and suprasegmental contexts influence both order of acquisition and mismatch (error) patterns (Bérubé, Bernhardt, Stemberger & Ciocca, 2020). Constraints-based nonlinear phonology provides a comprehensive framework for investigating the impact of sub- and suprasegmental impacts on acquisition (Bernhardt & Stemberger, 1998). The current study adopted such a framework in order to investigate these questions for Granada Spanish. Single-word samples of monolingual preschoolers in Granada (29 typically developing; 30 with protracted phonological development) were transcribed by native Spanish speakers in consultation with an international team. Beta regression analyses showed significant effects of age, developmental group, and word structure variables (word length, stress, position of consonants and syllables within the word); salience, markedness and/or frequency across the phonological hierarchy accounted for many patterns. The study further demonstrates the impacts of sub- and suprasegmental constraints of the phonological system on consonant acquisition. 2023-03-07T08:11:59Z 2023-03-07T08:11:59Z 2023-01-31 journal article Bernhardt, B. M., Raymond, G., Ávila, C., Cáceres Serrano, P., Carballo, G., Fresneda, D., Mendoza, E., Hoang, K., Liu, L., Muñoz, J., Pérez, D., & Stemberger, J. P. (2023). Singleton consonant onset acquisition in monolingual Granada Spanish-speaking preschoolers with typical versus protracted phonological development: Impacts of word structure and feature constraints. Journal of child language, 1-35. doi:[10.1017/S0305000922000666] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/80441 10.1017/S0305000922000666 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Cambridge University Press