Plosive Features of Pronunciation with Deaf Children

Abstract

This research shows the results of efficiency in articulating plosives and the discrimination of plosive couples with deaf children in the elementary school. For the purpose of this research we have used: a global articulation test and a test to distinguish phonemes. The study was performed on 24 deaf students, and the results indicate the existence of differences in the discrimination of plosive pairs between students of younger and older age, but also the lack of difference in the articulation of plosives between the two groups of participants.

Keywords

• plosives
• plosive couples
• deaf students