Delayed Versus Atypical Speech Sound Development: A Markedness-Based Analysis of Speech Sound Disorder in Cantonese Purpose: Speech sound disorder (SSD) is one of the major speech disorders in school-age children. Given the heterogeneity in terms of subtypes wi...

🔐💰🇭🇰 FASCINATING in @ashajournals.bsky.social Maggu, A. R., Shi, X., Kager, R., Wong, P. C. M., & To, C. K. S. (2025). Delayed Versus Atypical Speech Sound Development: A Markedness-Based Analysis of Speech Sound Disorder in #Cantonese. JSLHR doi.org/10.1044/2024... #OptimalityTheory #ChildSpeechDis

The fundamentals of designing a theory of phonology. And no, it doesn't work, because it cannot describe the impact of mouth geometry on phoneme realisation.
And yet, in this instance, it still objectively misunderstands the design principles of OT. /sat

#linguistics #phonology #optimalitytheory

a chart depicting optimality theory. there is a pointer finger pointing at the words "corner store" because corner store doesn't taste good, but it's not as bad as instant, and it's easy, cheap, and has caffeine, therefore being better than not bothering, instant, brew own, starbucks, and indie cafe

still kind of crazy to me how optimality theory still uses wingdings. and that it even used them in the first place.

#linguistics #phonology #optimalitytheory #wingdings #coffee