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Speech sound development of Croatian children at the age of 3

Recent studies on speech sound development in Croatian show that the existing assessment tasks and normative data should be revised. This paper reports results for the speech sound development in Croatian. 60 (30 M and 30 F) children aged 2 ; 10-4 ; 2 were included in the study. Children were tested by a picture naming task assessing development of 30 Croatian phonemes in various positions within words. The results, based on 75% criterion, show that at the age of three children have mastered vowels, stops (except for /g/), semi-vowels and nasals (except for /ɲ/). The results do not comply with the existing normative data for Croatian. The paper discusses lack of gender differences and the development of assessment task. The administered task and the obtained results can be used as a basis for the future normative study on speech sound development in Croatian.

speech sound development ; Croatian ; Slavic languages ; preschool children

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