The following manuscript has been accepted for publication:
Le, X. T. T., McLeod, S. & Phạm, B. (2021, in press). Consonant accuracy and intelligibility of Southern Vietnamese children. Speech, Language and Hearing.
It will be published in this journal: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/yslh20
Here is the abstract:
Understanding typically developing children’s speech acquisition is useful to assist speech-language pathologists’ diagnosis and intervention planning for children with speech sound disorders. The aim of this research was to investigate Southern Vietnamese-speaking children’s speech accuracy and intelligibility. Participants were 132 children aged 3;0-5;11 living in Southern Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City) whose consonants, semivowels, vowels, and tones were assessed using the Vietnamese Speech Assessment (VSA) and parent-reported intelligibility was assessed using the Vietnamese version of the Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS-VN). Participants’ percentage of consonants correct (PCC) was significantly lower for the younger children compared with the other age groups. Mean PCC was 89.19 (SD = 7.83) at 3;0-3;5 years and 99.31 (SD = 1.33) at 5;6-5;11 years. Percentage of semivowels correct was higher than the percentage of initial and final consonants correct. Participants produced tones and vowels accurately even from the youngest age group. On average, the participants were reported to be usually to always intelligible and were more intelligible with their parents than other communication partners. There was a positive, weak correlation between speech accuracy (PCC) and intelligibility (ICS-VN). There was no sex effect for PCC and no significant effect for age or sex on intelligibility. These data provide information about typical speech acquisition to support the emerging speech-language pathology profession in Vietnam.
This work was supported by a grant from Trinh Foundation Australia to the first author, an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (DP180102848) to the second author, an Australian Awards Scholarship to the third author, Charles Sturt University, and Ninh Dang Vu who provided data entry support.
We began working on this paper in 2017.
https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2017/11/xuans-visit-re-southern-vietnamese.html
The work had to be put on hold in 2018 due to my health issues as well as a few other reasons - so it is really exciting to have it accepted for publication today.
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| Xuan Le, Ninh Dang Vu, Ben Pham and Sharynne McLeod in 2017 |
I have just learned that our paper was accepted on "Kitchen God Day" which is just before Tet: https://vietnamtimes.org.vn/how-vietnamese-people-celebrate-kitchen-god-day-across-the-regions-27895.html
