On phonological processes in child Romanian

Abstract

The current paper is a contribution to the study of the acquisition of phonology by Romanian monolingual children whose tendency is to simplify adult targets by resorting to various phonological processes defined as patterns of sound errors that typically developing children use to approximate adult targets as they are learning to talk. The experimental data come from diaries kept by acquaintances of mine which, subsequently analyzed within the framework of “developmental universals” (Slobin 1985), illustrate that Romanian-speaking children adopt either identical or similar strategies approximating targets as their English peers (Bowen 2011; Buja 2015).