A proposal for the classification of phonetic-phonological adjustments in children’s speech (CLAFF)

Abstract

In this paper, we propose some guidelines for the classification of phoneticphonological adjustments (Clasificación de Ajustes Fonético-Fonológicos, CLAFF). Such guidelines are intended to describe and classify, from a phonetic-articulatory point of view, the adjustments that boys and girls make when, according to the standard Chilean Spanish phonological model, they unsuccessfully try to utter oral statements. These  guidelines include 21 phonetic-articulatory parameters that enable to comprehensively describe the quantitative and qualitative articulatory behaviour shown in normal children’s speech.