Flouting Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) in Child Language: An Optimality Perspective
Discussion of Results ( Data Analysis )
Note: the chapter does not consist of only two pages, rather this chapter will be more than forty pages. These two pages are limited due to the shortage number of recorded audio files on the one hand, and also these two pages could be considered as a trial order to test both the site and the writer handling this order, on the other hand. So, if the writer succeeds to submit a related and well-organized order, I will certainly choose him/her to write the rest of the 38 pages.
In this chapter, the writer is going to make an introductory paragraph explaining the main steps and procedures followed in this chapter to achieve and handle the phonological analyses ( in tableau form of IDENT-manner, MAX, DEP, complex, etc ) of the uploaded audio file ( child’s pronunciation of some words ) to show the violation or flouting of the sonority sequencing principle from the perspective of the Optimality Theory. The writer can make use of the uploaded pdf files in order to have a clear idea and full knowledge of the phonological analysis. It is very necessary that the writer has to be specialized in the field of phonetics and phonology. Moreover, the writer must first write down the phonemic transcription of some of the selected words chosen from an uploaded file of a dialogue with a child. The selected words ( at least three words that should be analyzed ) should have the sound consonant clusters in both the onset and the coda of the syllables. Of course, the writer has to listen carefully to the audio file and then pick up some specific words in which he thinks the child has made some sort of deletion, insertion, epenthesis, metathesis, or substitution to specific sounds, especially the consonant sounds that flout the theory of Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) from the perspective of the Optimality Theory ( OT ).
Definitely, if the writer is an expert and specialized in phonology, then he/she knows what I mean exactly.
The phonemic transcription that is used in this order should be the one used by the phonetician Peter Roach ( RP English ). I mean the writer should use the British phonemic symbols ( Oxford dictionary phonetic symbols ) and not the American symbols used by Mehmet Yavas.
When the writer applies the phonological analysis from the perspective of the OT, he/she should be careful with referring to the high rank and lower rank constraints, of course after he/she refers to violation of the SSP in the selected words chosen from the uttered dialogue pronounced by the child.
Furthermore, the writer has to draw or design the prosodic trees of the syllables of the selected words in order to show the internal combination or sequence of those syllables.
Moreover, the writer can make use of the attached or uploaded files which are the following:
1- Copy of the Dialogue with the Child ( pdf )
2- Audio file. ( here, according to his/her experience and professionality, the writer can use another word instead of the word “participant No”, etc ) ( Note that the number of the two pages may be ( or not ) enough for the analysis of the pronunciation of only one child; here I want to remind the writer that these five pages are only tested to examine the competency and proficiency of the writer )
3- A brief explanation of the research proposal. ( pdf )
4- Chapter three clarifies the research methodology. ( pdf )
5- Three sample files tackle the phonological analysis from the perspective of OT, and explain the theory of SSP. ( though these files are different in content and research method ). ( sample file )
6- Two books for Peter Roach and Mehmet Yavas that can be both used as sources.
So, in brief, the proposed steps for writing the order and doing the analysis can be elicited as the following:
1- Introductory paragraph explaining the followed steps and procedures for the technique of the analysis.
2- Listen to the audio recording file carefully.
3- Choose some of the words from the dialogue that you find that the child has violated the Sonority Sequencing Principle when pronouncing the consonant sound clusters for the syllables; by making the phonemic transcription ( transcription symbols used by Peter Roach in his book ) for the selected words.
4- Applying Hogg and McCully’s (1987) model of Sonority hierarchy. ( there is a lot of information related to this model in the sample file entitled: “The Perceptibility o English Sonority”.
5- Making the phonological analysis in terms of Optimality Theory. The phonological analyses in terms of the Optimality Theory mean in tableau form of IDENT-manner, MAX, DEP, complex, etc. of the uploaded audio file ( child’s pronunciation of some words ) to show the violation or flouting of the sonority sequencing principle from the perspective of the Optimality Theory. ( with short paragraphs explaining every tableau as in the uploaded photo sample no1 )
6- Drawing the prosodic trees. ( with short paragraphs explaining every tree as in the uploaded photo sample no2 )
