From this point
until adult pronunciation is achieved at the approximate age of 4 or 5
children’s phonological systems are constantly changing, as they bring their
use of processes in line with that of the adults around them.
One compelling
observation is that children can recognize their own mispronunciations.
Secondly, children know more that they can say. Many children have identical
pronunciations for different words, like bik for big or beak, yet able to
recognize them as different words when adults say them. Finally, many
‘difficult sounds’ appear in unexpected places in children’s speech. What seems
to be happening is that the child is not simply learning sounds in any order of
articulatory difficulty, but is developing a system for pronouncing the
phonemes of his language at this stage; the child’s phonological system contains
a process which devoices stops at the ends of words. But since this process is
not part of the adult system, he will eventually abandon it.
Source: Dr. Sujoko, MA. Psycholinguistics Mdule: UNS
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