Although a few late acquired phonemes were included in this experiment in onset position, subjects were not penalized for mispronunciations of onsets.
Second, exceptions which involve very common words whose mispronunciation will be noticeably detrimental to his/her speech.
It is therefore not appropriate to examine sensitivity to mispronunciations for novel words in this block.
In the current task, however, children learn two phonetically different words, and their sensitivity to mispronunciations of those words is tested.
Listening for mispronunciations in a children's story : the use of context by children and adults.
They also tend less to be lexically driven and more to be simple mispronunciations.
All you need is a bit of deliberate mispronunciation.
Finally, how should feedback be given about the nature of the mispronunciation?
