LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:5 May 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Phonological Processes in Malayalam Speaking 3-4 Year Old Urban and Rural Children

Anitha Simon
Shruthi L.
Rajalekshmi S.
Jenny Mevis D’Souza
Satish Kumaraswamy, Asst. Professor and Ph.D. Scholar

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Abstract

Most of the Indian population resides not in urban, but in rural areas with living conditions and facilities being very much different from the urban conditions. Hence, the present study focusses on comparing the phonological processes across urban and rural in the Malayalam speaking children of India. Thirty typically developing children, age ranging from 3-4 years participated in the study. The speech sample (minimum 50 utterances) was recorded from each child in a quiet room at home or school environment and recorded using PRAAT software. The result of the present study was that rural children exhibit more phonological processes than urban group.

Key words: Phonological processes, Malayalam language.

Introduction

Language refers to a rule based system of symbolic communication involving a set of small unit (syllables or words) that can be combined to yield an infinite number of larger language forms (Hoff & Naigles,2002). To learn the art of communication, using a language, is one of the early challenges that children face. This task requires a mastery of four types of skills namely, Syntax (Syntax structure), semantics (word and contextual meaning), pragmatics (language used) and phonology (speech sounds and sequencing). All these skills are obviously interrelated and an inadequacy in either of these skills may lead to a communicative difficulty.

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Anitha Simon
Second Year Post Graduate Student
Dr. M.V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
Maladi Court, Kavoor
Mangalore- 575015
Karnataka
India
anithamampallil@gmail.com

Shruthi L
Second Year Post Graduate Student
Dr. M.V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
Maladi Court, Kavoor
Mangalore- 575015
Karnataka
India
Lachus.lakshmi@gmail.com

Rajalekshmi.S
Second Year Post Graduate Student
Dr. M.V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
Maladi Court, Kavoor
Mangalore- 575015
Karnataka
India
srajalekshmi1990@gmail.com

Jenny Mevis D’souza
Second Year Post Graduate Student
Dr. M.V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
Maladi Court, Kavoor
Mangalore- 575015
Karnataka
India
jennymavis1992@gmail.com

Mr. Satish Kumaraswamy
Principal
Dr. M.V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
Maladi Court, Kavoor
Mangalore- 575015
Karnataka
India
sat8378@yahoo.com
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